the City of Sin, and fell in love with the streets spectacle. Still, in the 19th century, sidewalk cafés had no future in Anglo-Saxon puritanical countries. Not for a long time. Public lounging while drinking, especially (horror of horrors!) on a Sunday, when every...
QueenVictoria’s jubilees in 1887 and 1897 involved both imperial pageantry and imperial conferences, but, between 1896 and 1902, public interest in problems of empire was intensified not so much by pageantry as by crisis. British-Boer relations inSouth Africa, always tense, were further worsened...
Despite this precarious position, and the death of Lawrence early in the siege, the troops and civilians managed to hold out thanks to the actions of a number of soldiers who were later awarded the Victoria Cross. Troops during the Indian MutinyCommonly known as the “Indian Mutiny,” the ...