G. Rommelse, The Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-1667). Raison d'état, Mercantilism and Maritime Strife

Robert Hooke's Micrographia of 1665 and 1667.

Mercantilism as Strategic Trade Policy: The Anglo-Dutch Rivalry for the East India Trade

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The Origins of the Anglo-American Research Alliance and the Incidence of Civilian Neuroses in Second World War Britain

From August 1940 until May 1941, Germany subjected Great Britain to air bombardments by night and day. Desmond Flower recalled how London shook as the first bombs hit the docks, while in early September 1940, nurse Frances Faviell described London’s casualties as, ‘‘bodies, limbs, blood and flesh mingled with little hats, coats, and shoes’’. Despite this onslaught and the ‘‘‘Blind savagery’’ of...

J.G. Crowther's War: Institutional strife at the BBC and British Council.

Science writer, historian and administrator J.G. Crowther (1899-1983) had an uneasy relationship with the BBC during the 1920s and 1930s, and was regarded with suspicion by the British security services because of his left politics. Nevertheless the Second World War saw him working for 'establishment' institutions. He was closely associated with the BBC's Overseas Service and employed by the Br...

Anglo-Yugoslav medical relations in peace and war.

Although the medical centres of Great Britain, owing to their distance from Yugoslavia,t have influenced Yugoslavian medicine less than those of neighbouring countries such as Italy, Austria, and Hungary, some traces of contact can be found as far back as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But the first real co-operation dates from the end of the nineteenth century, when assistance began...