John Clayton, a British colonial official lost in the African jungle, is caught unawares by Kerchak, the gorilla.

Jack Pansay has just bought an engagement ring for the bewitching Kitty Mannering, yet to his annoyance it is the late Mrs Wessington he is thinking about.

Two former soldiers in India find British bureaucracy cramps their style, so they set off to become kings of their own land.

William Stead warned his fellow-journalists to take care that their bellicose rhetoric did not end in a real war with Russia.

A fierce Victorian rivalry sprang up between two football teams from the industrial heartlands of the North East.

A young Indian student from Cambridge was selected for England’s cricket team after public pressure.