The top seller was a late 19th-century German composition and wood French Napoleonic Cavalry, which went for £10,912 to a US collector. Other notable sales included a mechanical shepherdess toy ...

More than just play objects, these games are curious records of 19th-century British beliefs and prejudices, reflecting the attitudes of a growing empire towards its own society as well as towards ...

In reality, while it did increase hugely during the years of the Great Hunger, the Irish had begun to migrate to British North ... By the end of the 19th century almost one-third of Toronto ...