Edmund Burke explained to the Duke of Bedford that in politics there is very great difference between change and reform.

In 1756, the Nawab of Bengal allowed his frustration with British merchants in Calcutta to get the better of him.

Before Siraj ud-Daulah became Nawab of Bengal in 1756, his grandfather begged him to keep the English sweet, and put no trust in Jafar Ali Khan. If he had only listened...

William Herschel showed that variations in the brightness of the sun were causing climate change, but hardly anyone believed him.

The fort at Budge Budge near Calcutta proved stubborn against the massed artillery of the East India Company, but a tipsy seaman took it all by himself.

Unlike some of his fellows in Westminster, Scottish statesman Henry Dundas made no attempt to make himself sound more ‘English’.