When Victoria ascended the British throne on 20 June 1837, G. A. Henty was not yet five years old. Yet in thousands of young boys' lives Henty was destined to be as important as the queen. In a 1980 review of the most recent biography of Henty, Eric Stok...
G. A. Henty once described himself as "a fierce and truculent Briton, ready to defy the whole world." It was an exaggerated yet appropriate description, given Henty's character and appearance. He was a tall, powerfully built man, with a large head and a...
Byline: Jonathan Brocklebank A CHARISMATIC soldier, he led armies across Europe and broke the heartof the Russian Tsarina. But while he is celebrated across the Continent, he remains little known in hishomeland. Now, 250 years after his death, Jacobite exile James...
The use of engraved drinking glasses to express political, religious, or dynastic allegiances became increasingly popular in eighteenth-century Britain. As material culture, such glasses offer an insight into a society transforming itself in terms of its beliefs and outlook, and in terms of conviviality,...
