A host of rare and interesting items were up for sale in the Militaria and Ethnographica Sale on June 25, the earliest of ...

Those who maintain that Britain is not a European country because it’s an island nation should reflect on how deeply ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's astonishing return to power in France from exile on Elba in 1815 and how ...

This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 266,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the ...