Lord Cromer, a former Consul-General of Egypt, expressed his frustration at politicians who set too much store by Foreign Office briefings.

When it opened in 1901, the Uganda Railway still wasn’t in Uganda, and Westminster’s MPs were still debating whether or not to build it.

The villagers of Mabutso in Southern Africa begged Dr David Livingstone to rid them of a menacing pride of lions.

American historian David Montgomery credited King Edward VII with bringing peace to Europe, the Empire and the world.

David Livingstone relives the historic moment when he became the first European to see the Victoria Falls.

Four years before the bloody American civil war, Dr David Livingstone proposed a peaceful way to rid the world of slavery.