The Monds were significant figures not only as the architects of a great modern industry but as representatives of a phase of industrial development that nowadays belongs to the past. Here Dr. W.H. Chaloner traces the rise of these determined individualists.
D.C. Somervell profiles the predominant figure in British politics during the interwar years.
J.D. Hargreaves reviews the delicate truce that existed between Britain and Japan in the early years of the twentieth century.
Adrian Brunel profiles the influential revolutionary pamphleteer and political philosopher.
Naomi Mitchinson on the complex linguistic legacies of the travelling people.
J.H. Plumb profiles, perhaps, the finest orator to hold the office of British Prime Minister.
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, accounts for the last hours in active British politics for the 'Grand Old Man'.
C.E. Stevens searches the elusive world of ancient Britain.
T. Charles Edwards on the position of Catholics in Victorian England.
The memories of Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, of the political crisis that Gladstone's final resignation caused at the heart of the British government in 1894.
