Victorian MP Richard Cobden pleaded for Britain to set the world an example as a nation open for business.

Samuel Sidney, a Victorian expert on Australian matters, explained how cutting tax and regulation on Britain’s global trade made everyone better off.

If Britain is a chessboard, then politicians should remember that the ‘pieces’ are alive, and they generally play a better game.

No one is more dangerous than the man who thinks that it is his destiny to direct things for the common good.

Queen Victoria assured her subjects that there were no second-class citizens in her eyes.

In a Christmas broadcast in 1940, actor Leslie Howard explained why British sovereignty was worth fighting for.