The King patronised Captain Cook’s first voyages to Australia and the south pacific. In 1796, the first kangaroos to enter Britain were kept at Queen Charlotte's Cottage. However, Kew’s success was ...
His Counterblaste to Tobacco (1606) was one of the first anti-smoking pamphlets. The foiled gunpowder plot we commemorate every 5 November was meant to blow up James I and his Parliament in 1605. The ...