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1886

Iain Mclean and Alistair McMillan

in State of the Union

This chapter examines the unravelling of the Union between 1800 and 1886. The UK of Great Britain and Ireland was created in 1800, and the Union flag then took on its modern design, with crosses to ... More

This chapter examines the unravelling of the Union between 1800 and 1886. The UK of Great Britain and Ireland was created in 1800, and the Union flag then took on its modern design, with crosses to represent England, Scotland, and Ireland (but not Wales). However, the Irish Union was never accepted in the way the Scottish Union was. The unravelling of the Union began seriously in 1886.Less

The Curse of the Pharaohs

in The Turnstone: A Doctor's Story

This chapter presents the author's account of a patient, John Wiles, who became ill after exploring a complex of caves in the Urungwe Native Reserve of Rhodesia. He recounts a similar illness ... More

This chapter presents the author's account of a patient, John Wiles, who became ill after exploring a complex of caves in the Urungwe Native Reserve of Rhodesia. He recounts a similar illness affecting individuals who had been exposed to the fungus, Histoplasma capsulatum, which grew in the birds' manure. When the dried manure was disturbed, the dust was inhaled and the fungus caused a lung and general infection, histoplasmosis. These events also prompt the author to recall the so-called curse that was believed to be responsible for the death of Lord Carnarvon following the opening of Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings of Egypt. Evidence suggests that Lord Carnvarvon's death was due to inhalation of dust containing the fungus histoplasma from the dried bat droppings in the passage leading to King Tutankhamen's tomb.Less

Cantillon's Early Career

Antoin E. Murphy

in Richard Cantillon: Entrepreneur and Economist

Cantillon's links with the Jacobite banker, Sir Daniel Arthur, are shown. Cantillon's early career is traced showing how he worked for James Brydges, later the Duke of Chandos, the Paymaster General ... More

Cantillon's links with the Jacobite banker, Sir Daniel Arthur, are shown. Cantillon's early career is traced showing how he worked for James Brydges, later the Duke of Chandos, the Paymaster General of the Forces Abroad and one of the biggest war profiteers of the eighteenth century. Cantillon acted as a type of accountant for Brydges in Spain towards the end of the War of the Spanish Succession.Less

South Africa: saving the White voters from being ‘utterly swamped’

Julie Evans, Patricia Grimshaw, David Philips, and Shurlee Swain

in Equal Subjects, Unequal Rights: Indigenous People in British Settler Colonies, 1830-1910

This chapter focuses on the voting rights and political outcomes of the intensified appropriation of Indigenous lands by British settler colonists in South Africa from the 1870s to 1910. By the ... More

This chapter focuses on the voting rights and political outcomes of the intensified appropriation of Indigenous lands by British settler colonists in South Africa from the 1870s to 1910. By the 1870s, important economic and political developments in South Africa prompted Britain to act in consolidating its interests throughout the Southern African region. These developments, which included the ‘mineral revolution’ through the discovery of diamond fields and gold fields, and Lord Carnarvon's federation scheme of 1870, together reshaped the political geography of South Africa within three decades. By the end of the nineteenth century, the separate African polities had almost entirely disappeared under some form of European colonial jurisdiction, and Britain was also directly threatening the independence of the two Boer republics. The chapter summarizes the political developments related to the voting rights of people, including settlers and Indigenous in the British settler colonies of Natal and Cape Colony.Less