During the 19th century the British fought minor wars in ... The Sudan in 1898. The Aro War in Nigeria in 1901-02. The Maxim gun became so renowned, it even featured in poems.

The collections highlighted below are a small part of our 19th and 20th century collections. Most of the materials in these collections and many others can be located through Library Search.

Late 19th century engraving of a doctor treating a young child. Unfortunately, the outbreak of World War One in 1914 put an end to the reforms. Britain would have to wait until the end of World ...

Distrust and resentment, a legacy of decades of conflict in the 19th and 20th ... during World War II-claimed tens of millions of lives. Memories of the Nanjing massacre, the sexual exploitation of ...

Culture.pl’s selection of amazing photos from the 1870s take you on a tour of a Warsaw from before the dramatic events of the 20th century. See a Warsaw that is no more: the classy Hotel Europejski, ...

The core of a 19th-century U.S. foreign policy was to see the U.S. as lacking global interests and global obligations. By ...