Unionists
Towards Zero: the gruesome countdown to the American Civil War
The North and South had been bitterly divided over slavery since the invention of the cotton gin in the 1790s, but the Battle of Fort Sumter in 1861 would prove the point of no return
City of contradictions
Before the Troubles hijacked its reputation, the city was renowned for its linen industry and great shipyards, responsible for an eighth of the global shipbuilding trade
The disunited kingdom
This was the Scottish election. Where next for the Union now?