Contemporary historian Ramanath Aiyar catalogued the ways in which Maharajah Moolam Thurunal led the way in modernising British India.

Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of Bombay, welcomed the way that railway construction had taught Indian navvies to demand a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s labour.

Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of Bombay, shared his excitement at the way railways were making Indians more independent.

Young inventor James Watt’s life in London was overshadowed by the perpetual fear of being snatched.

Georgian Britain braced for war as relations with France in North America, India and mainland Europe took a turn for the worse.

John Buchan was moved by the way the nations of the British Empire volunteered for service in the Great War.