In London that year, Queen Victoria became the first British ruler to travel by train. In Richmond, 14-year-old Alexander Hamilton Sands went to work in his brother’s Richmond law office, leaving his ...

Virji Vora, Shanti Das Zaviri, Mullah Abdul Gafar, Jagat Seth — who functioned as billionaires of their age, dealing in ...

Medical care in 2012 is unrecognizable as compared with what it was in 1812, and no 19th-century physician would be at home in a modern hospital. A 19th-century lawyer, however, would be ...

The early 19th-century monarchy was unable to inspire national unity. Indeed, it was part of the problem. The claim that Britain came close to revolution in 1830-32 is by no means fanciful.