Inspired by economists in Britain, Frédéric Bastiat explained to his own Government why their initiatives to boost the economy so often fail.

Frédéric Bastiat made a tongue-in-cheek appeal to the French government, asking them to protect candlemakers from a cut-throat competitor.

On his travels through China and Tibet, Roman Catholic missionary Évariste Huc came across a novel way of telling the time.

George Stephenson was only too pleased to save the Government from its scientific advisers.

American anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass contrasts two kinds of ‘nationalist’.

Frederick Douglass, the American runaway slave turned Abolitionist, spent some of his happiest days in Britain.