The British Empire may be said to have started when Elizabethan importers got into a fight with the Dutch over the price of pepper.

The Sultan of Aceh in northern Sumatra welcomed his guests from Christian England with an unexpected gesture of friendship.

An ageing Heron finds himself a little too stiff to fish for himself, so he thinks of a way to get the fish to do it for him.

A harassed mother Raven vows bloody revenge on a venomous Snake, but the wily old Jackal has a better idea.

Thomas Pitt’s tenure as Governor of Madras was regarded as a golden age, but what he is remembered for is his diamond.

A herd of goats is threatened by a pride of lions, and it falls to one brave billy to face the danger alone.