The Zong Massacre of 1781 is one of history’s worst atrocities committed during the already hideous transatlantic slave trade….
The Great Emu War of 1932 is among Australia’s strangest military campaigns. Desperate farmers hired soldiers armed with machine…
The East India Company started as a commercial enterprise but became something much greater: a sovereign power. It raised…
In 1670, a group of English investors received a royal charter to form the Hudson’s Bay Company. From this…
John Law is forever associated with the Mississippi Bubble, one of the most spectacular financial crises of French history. At…
