In 1903 a group of politicians tried to sell tariffs as a panacea to all of Britain’s problems. Would the public buy it?

Hertha Ayrton’s experiment in a bathtub may have saved lives in the trenches, but it caused ripples among the ranks of the Royal Society.

‘What’s the most exciting field in history today? Native American history – the Native nations have only begun to tell their histories.’

‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column by Mary Beth Norton reveals the 17th-century origins of the agony aunt.

How should we see the natural world? For Descartes it was a mechanism, but a wondrous one.

How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy alliance between oil, autocracy, and Wahhabism.

Britain’s first book-of-the-month club – the Book Society – brought reading to a vast new audience. But not without some controversy.

In Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England Hillary Taylor listens in the archives for the voices of ordinary people.