A nation with its own laws and a strong sense of shared cultural identity makes good economic sense.

Adam Smith warns that politicians are the last people who should lecture the public about how to run their affairs.

James Cook describes his first sight of a beloved Australian icon.

A twelve-year-old girl from Lyme Regis made a historic discovery while selling seashells to tourists.

At fifteen John Dalton was a village schoolmaster in Kendal; at forty he had published the first scientific theory of atoms.

A long-lived annual of riddles, rhymes and really hard maths aimed specifically at Georgian Britain’s hidden public of clever women.