For 60,000 years the rest of the world had pretty much left Australia and its Aboriginal nations alone. Then it became a home for Britain’s criminals and poor. Now a…

On May 7, 1945, 92 gold bars are discovered in a crashed car at Bolzano, where it is said that no-one can cook a good spaghetti. The watch on the…

We are witnessing a dynamic reshaping of the European ‘mediascape’. This has been underway for more than a decade since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, the growing…

Mars was once a thriving planet with an advanced civilization. But four hundred years ago, a large object struck Mars, leaving its surface cold and lifeless. Some of its inhabitants…

Prague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city’s unique culture. In Prague in Black and Gold, Peter…

The analysis of the monetary system in the modern economy. Fractional reserve banking allows creation of money. The abolishment of the gold standard removes the limits from the game, handing…

From Gold to Federation describes how huge exhibitions reflected an emerging national identity and promoted the interests of strongly growing colonial economies.

Title: The Gold Fields revisited, being further glimpses of the gold fields of South Africa.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom…