Tea, Toilets & Typewriters: Women's Clubs in London
Frances Borzello seeks to explain the rise of women’s clubs in London before the First World War – and their equally swift demise.
Volume 58 Issue 12 December 2008
Edward VIII: A Prince in the Promised Land
At the end of the First World War, the British monarchy sought to strengthen bonds across the English-speaking world. Frank Prochaska discusses the ambassadorial role played by Edward, Prince of Wales, in the United States.
Birth of John Milton
The poet and philosopher was born on December 9th, 1608.
Ernest Rutherford’s Nobel Prize
The founding father of nuclear physics was awarded the highest honour on December 10th, 1908.
Chinese at the Somme
Lucy Winstanley describes an unusual cemetery of the 1914-18 War, the burial place of Chinese workers who joined the Allied forces in the war against the Kaiser.