Ten British POWs in German-occupied Poland decide to help a young Jewish woman escape the SS and a death march to the sea.

Samuel Smiles explains how Tudor England was transformed from sleepy backwater to hive of industry.

Sir Humphry Davy pleads with Britain’s scientists not to be bought by Napoleon’s gold.

Britain’s colonies were founded to supply her Government with gold, but instead they supplied her people with liberty.

Adam Smith credited the British Empire’s success not to the policy of her Government, but to the character of her people.

Edmund Burke takes time off from campaigning for liberty to reflect on the delights of captivity.