Since its rough and tumble days as a frontier colony, Canada has been trying to develop cohesive gambling legislation. Like their southern neighbor, having so
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April 26, 1717, started out as a typical day in the life of the band of pirates led by Sam Bellamy aboard their ship the
In this article Janet Ford discusses the horrific act of infanticide in the nineteenth century with the help of records from London’s Old Bailey court
Frederick Douglass was born a slave, but his life was to later move into a different world. He became an important figure in the US
During the American Civil War, one bold woman in the heart of the Confederacy dared to support the Union cause by freeing her slaves, aiding
Slavery finally came to an end in the United States during the 1860s. But who should take credit for freeing the slaves? The slaves themselves
The Eastern Front in World War One is often largely unknown to many Westerners. The situation there was quite different to that on the Western
The Wild West of nineteenth-century America was at times a chaotic and unruly place, not helped by the lack of law enforcement officials. Even so,
Tanks have been integral to armies since World War One. But over the years a number of prototype designs have been made that never quite
Janet Ford takes a light-hearted look at inns and alehouses in 17th and 18th century Britain by reviewing the diaries of three travellers who experienced