Britain

Norman Macdougall explores the vicissitudes of James IV's reign; although regarded as a paragon amongst Scottish kings, his downfall owed much to his failings.

In 1926 the mining dispute led to the General Strike. Chris Wrigley writes how the memory of the hardship of those months has left a permanent legacy of bitterness in industrial relations in the coal industry.

David Low, the cartoonist, met Horatio Blimp, a retired Colonel, in a Turkish bath near Charing Cross in the early 1930s. Many agree with C.S. Lewis that Colonel Blimp was 'the most characteristic expression of the English temper in the period between the two wars.'

Jenny Wormald introduces a series of ten articles on Scottish history.

Robert Thorne on London's architects and their work.

John Campbell on the curious case of F.E. Smith and the 'black diaries' of Sir Roger Casement

The Duke of Wellington proved a gift to the cartoonists of 'Punch' - he was a figure the magazine's readership would recognise, and he did not look unlike Mr Punch himself.

David Dutton explores the twilight years of the British statesman following the 1906 General Election.

Julia Phillips charts the history of women in British society.

Alan Heesom discusses 19th-century politics either side of the Irish Sea.