Auteur: Peter Thorsheim

Going as far back as the thirteenth century, Britons mined and burned coal. Britain’s supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal, which powered industry, …

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Examines the ‘home front’ war effort from an overall imperial perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial territories. There is increasing interest in the ‘home front’ during the S …

Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the “new Rome, ” first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighteenth century, the British capital had alre …