Britain

Religion in the Victorian City

The census of religious worship taken in England and Wales in 1851 gives a unique insight into the religious habits of our Victorian predecessors which, as Bruce Coleman explains, is very much at variance with the popular image of them.

Winston Churchill

The 'Churchill Question' is a complex one: a study in failure as well as success.

The Great Victorian Convent Case

With the increase in Irish immigration into Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, concern arose about the resurgence of Catholicism. Yet not all women in convents were helplessly detained there, as explains Walter L. Arnstein.

Mid-Victorianism

G.M. Young portrays the golden political calm and sense of cultural comfort at play in mid-Victorian England.