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Indian History

William Hall VC

Canadian sailor William Hall was summoned over to India to help face down the Indian Mutiny.

Indian History

The Siege of Lucknow

During the Indian Mutiny, over a thousand men, women and children were trapped in the Commissioner’s residence at Lucknow.

Stuart Era

The Nine Years’ War

King Louis XIV of France raised rebellion in Ireland to put his own man on the English throne.

Stuart Era

The Darien Scheme

The Parliament of Scotland tried to liberate itself from London’s strangling single market.

Modern History

The Voyage of the ‘Mayflower’

A crackdown on dissent in England’s established Church drove a band of Nottinghamshire townspeople to seek new shores.

Liberty and Prosperity

Folly and Freedom

Britain’s colonies were founded to supply her Government with gold, but instead they supplied her people with liberty.