In 1903, Roosevelt was vice president of the United States. He assumed the presidency on September 14, when President McKinley died from gunshot wounds. Roosevelt understood that he would need the ...

Picture Courtesy – The British Library. One of the only known photographs of Bahadur Shah Zafar II, taken after his trial in 1858 For more than a century the last Mughal emperor was almost ...

Marcelline, Sanayi 2023. Working the salterns. Convict workers in the natural salt pans of Hambantota, in British colonial Sri Lanka. Labor History, Vol. 64, Issue. 6 ...

There is still work to do. Emmeline Pankhurst was born on 14 July 1858 in Moss Side, Manchester. Her family were very wealthy and her parents were both politically active. As she grew older ...

The summer of 1858 was warm and dry. As a result, the water level of the River Thames dropped. This meant the sewage and waste that were being dumped in the river were no longer being quickly ...