Suppose there were people from another country who carried opium for sale to England and seduced your people into buying and smoking it; certainly your honorable ruler would deeply hate it and be ...

One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the ...

Various experiments have been made in England, France, and Scotland, to produce opium, with encouraging results. So far as our knowledge extends the attempts made here have not given much ...

A bell has been stolen from a war memorial in a Nottingham park. Nottinghamshire Police said the bell was taken from the Chinese Bell Tower, in the city's Arboretum. The force said Nottingham City ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

This series is relevant for teaching history at Key Stage 3 and 4 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and at Third and Fourth Level in Scotland. The First Opium War, 1838-1842. videoThe First ...