The colourful Foreign Secretary humbly accepted a lesson in manners from a local tradesman.

Abbot Elfric expounds a Palm Sunday text to explain how Christianity combines orderly behaviour with intelligent and genuine liberty.

J. S. Mill argues that free trade has done more to put an end to war than any political union or military alliance.

Victorian MP Richard Cobden believed British politicians supporting the slave-owning American South had been led a merry dance.

Victorian MP Richard Cobden offered a startling analogy for the American Civil War.

Nineteenth-century Britain had busy industrial cities and a prosperous middle class, but no MPs to represent them.