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Book

The political philosopher, Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), circulated A Plea for the Constitution to influential friends and...

Manuscript Created date: 1690

The East India Company was founded in 1600 for the purpose of trading in South-East Asia, but its monopoly in that regio...

Booklet

In 1915, to coincide with Magna Carta’s 700th anniversary, the suffragette campaigner, Helena Normanton (1882–1957), pub...

Report Created date: 26 February 1779

In 1773 the British government established the Supreme Court of Judicature for Bengal. Controversially, the court limite...

Newspaper

Since 1893, Indian settlers in South Africa had pursued a programme of civil disobedience, or ‘passive resistance’, in o...

Booklet

On 11 July 1963, police raided Liliesleaf Farm at Rivonia, near Johannesburg, and arrested members of the high command o...

Report Created date: c.1779

In 1773 the British government established the Supreme Court of Judicature for Bengal. Controversially, the court limit...

Report Created date: 1 November 1858

In the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion (1857), the British Parliament passed the Government of India Act, transferring...

Letter Created date: 1947

In 1947, a proposal to make 15 June a public holiday in the British Empire and United States was discussed by the Britis...

Book

First published in September 1899, a month before the outbreak of the second Boer War, Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘The Old I...

Manuscript Created date: c. 1714

In 1708, Captain John Roberts was appointed by the East India Company to replace the recently deceased Captain Stephen P...

Manuscript, Charter Created date: 6 February 1840

British sailors, whalers and missionaries settled in New Zealand from the early 19th century, but the British government...

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