The Puritans said it was unfit for God-fearing men, but George I thought it fit for a King.

‘Rule Britannia’ was a discreet way of telling a German prince what was expected of a British King.

An English monk warned of a flaw in the world’s most widely-used calendar.

Robert Clive helped to establish a lasting bond between India and Britain, laying the foundations of modern India.

In the time of King George III, Parliament forgot that its job was not to regulate the people, but to represent them.

Edmond Halley will forever be associated with the comet named after him, but his greatest achievement was getting Sir Isaac Newton to publish ‘Principia Mathematica’.