Puffing Billy
Andrew Barclay marks the 300th anniversary of the death of William III.
History Today
The British Universities Newsreel Database
Luke McKernan introduces the British Universities Newsreel Database, together with plans for its development.
What’s Wrong with Television History?
As a new channel dedicated to history opens up in the UK, Tom Stearn excoriates current fashion and points the way to a more historical past on TV.
When Hell came to Halifax
Howard Baker explains how the chance convergence of two vessels produced tragedy and disaster.
The 1902 Education Act
Kevin Manton regrets the political decision to remove direct democratic control over education a hundred years ago.
The Forty-Seven Ronin Incident
On 14 December 1702, a band of samurai avenged the death of their master.
Contracting Out: Administrative Privatisation in the Reign of James I
Conrad Russell looks at the perks and pitfalls of public office-holding in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
Afghanistan and Gladstone's Moral Foreign Policy
Roland Quinault discusses Gladstone’s view of the Second Afghan War both in opposition and during his premiership.
Aztecs: A New Perspective
John M.D. Pohl reviews recent scholarship about the empire swept away by Cortes.
Madame Tussaud and her Waxworks
Pamela Pilbeam celebrates the bicentenary of the arrival of Madame Tussaud's waxworks in Britain.