A young Nathaniel Hawthorne recalls a confidential conversation with a tired old horse.

Some likened tax-and-spend to a refreshing shower of rain, but for William Cobbett the rain wasn’t falling mainly on the plain man.

William Wilberforce told Parliament that the more his opponents slandered him, the more he was sure he was winning.

Acclaimed in Germany as a composer on a par with Mendelssohn himself, Bennett sacrificed his life and talents for music in Britain.

For two centuries, human traffickers had stolen English men, women and children for the slave-markets of the Arab world.