An unemployed French labourer was amazed when a friend suggested becoming a French master to refined English ladies.

A runaway slave is recaptured, and charged with ingratitude by the master who has taken such pains to afford him economic security.

Norman Leys complained that policymakers in Africa were interested more in training loyal and industrious workers than in nurturing free peoples.

Sir William Hunter looks back over a Government committee’s plan to introduce tea cultivation to India in 1834.

A good knowledge of history is essential if we are to understand how words such as liberty and democracy are understood.

Edmund Burke warned that the French Revolution could have a devastating effect on British and European culture.