Economist Adam Smith warned that when Western commercial interests get involved in policy-making abroad, war and want are sure to follow.

Adam Smith contrasted the Government’s handling of the national economy with the way most families handled theirs.

On July 4th, 1776, a group of American colonists gathered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to present delegates of the Thirteen Colonies with a historic document.

Captain Cook’s friend and ship’s surgeon David Samwell gives us his impressions of the great explorer.

Adam Smith could not imagine it would ever happen, but he nevertheless recommended that Britain grant independence to her colonies.

The spread of Western civilisation must not be credited to European policy, but to a culture of curiosity, enterprise and defiance.