EditorialPortrait of Mary Jane Seacole (1805 – 14 May 1881), née Grant. A Jamaican-born woman of Scottish and Creole descent who set up a 'British Hotel' behind the lines during the Crimean War, which she described as "a mess-table and comfortable quarters f...
EditorialIgnatius Sancho. Composer, actor and writer. The first known black Briton to vote in a British election, and the first African to be given an obituary in the british press. . Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho ... Dublin: 1784. Ignatius Sancho (1729-1...
EditorialThis Appendix to issue forty-five of The North Briton was published after John Wilkes returned from exile in 1768. Despite being arrested and jailed in the King’s Bench Prison, Wilkes sought re-election to Parliament (1768–69), and he used The Nort...
EditorialA Romanised Briton and a Feryllt, a metallurgist, chemist and botanist. The Briton in a plaid cloak and sagum, carrying a two-handed sword, cleddyv deuddwrn. Feryllt in green robe holding hammer and tongs before an anvil. Handcoloured aquatint by R. Ha...
EditorialBelgic Briton and one of the Cassiterides of Cornwall from the pre-Roman era. Briton in checkered saic (mantle) over a pais (tunic) and llawdyr (pantaloons) and brog (shoes). The Cassiterides wears a long tunic and carries a staff. They stand in front ...
EditorialA Briton of the interior, carrying tarian (shield), fon-wayw (spear) and bwyell-arv (battle axe), from the pre-Roman era. In front of a Catterthun fortress. Handcoloured aquatint by R. Havell from an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Samuel M...