Anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp had a court order preventing Thomas Lewis being shipped off to slavery, but he had to find him first.

When Harrison won the Longitude Prize, fair and square, Parliament wouldn’t pay up.

The Duke of Argyll was pleasantly surprised to find one of his gardeners reading a learned book of mathematics - in Latin.

When Parliament sent the Army against American colonists, people still calling themselves ‘British’ had to decide very quickly what that meant to them.

Mrs Clements of Durham is not a household name, but the product she invented is.

How do we get the help of millions of people we don’t know? Only by trade.