The most brilliant violinist of his generation, whose finely-crafted compositions showed off bravura and spoke tenderness.

Edmund Burke pleaded with Parliament to emerge from behind closed doors and reconnect with the British public.

To prove that steam power was the future of railways, George Stephenson held a truly historic competition.

When captain Richard Pearson of the Royal Navy surrendered to American revolutionary John Paul Jones, Jones naturally assumed that meant he had won.

The invention of the steamboat was a formidable challenge not just of engineering, but of politics and finance.

A former convict told Henry Morley about his debt to Thomas Wright, the prisoner’s friend.