For the Greatest Interviews series, we revisit one reluctant writer’s absorbing 1968 meeting with another equally reluctant ...

Hagi Castle, which sadly was dismantled by government ... After the British defeat of the Qing dynasty in the Opium War and the arrival of the Black Ships, the need for coastal defenses became ...

THE TOP rated Wetherspoons has been revealed with the very best going to a beautiful former bank. Google Maps has put together a list of the 20 best-loved pubs in the UK, and a Wetherspoon’s ...

Mary Carr, played in A Thousand Blows by Erin Doherty, was one of the groups early ringleaders. According to the historian Beezy Marsh, she was a “golden-haired beauty”, having cut her teeth as a ...

The Astor family first rose to prominence in 19th-century America after the family patriarch, John Jacob Astor, made a fortune in the fur trade and New York City real estate. Many of his descendants ...

The monarch died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland on September 8 ... they first occupied Hong Kong Island in 1841 during the First Opium War. He added that one massacre was recorded during the ...

CBSA found 14 kilos of opium in his luggage You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. After an Ontario real estate agent returning from a trip to ...

In 1839, Lin was the Qing dynasty official who confronted the British and their illegal opium trade that pushed the substance on Chinese users; he confiscated 20,000 chests of the drug and cast ...

A total of 421.2kg of ganja and 1.9kg of charas from Chikkodi, 78kg of ganja from Bagalkot, 90.4kg of opium, and 106.7kg of ganja from Vijayapura were destroyed. Precautions were taken to avoid ...

opium, coal. The flexible category proves a rich source of material in scholarly essays collected by Juliet Carey and Abigail Green, with archival imagery and moody photographs by Helene Binet.

Hugh Cecil Lowther was a real English peer and sportsman during the period around which A Thousand Blows is set. He’s the ...