Britain

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham by Richard Brompton.

Pitt the Elder resigns

One of the architects of the British Empire resigned on 5 October 1761.

Harold Macmillan

D.R. Thorpe, Macmillan's new biographer, evokes the memory of 'Supermac'.

Shire Living Histories

Richard Wilkinson finds much to enjoy in the opening volumes of a comprehensive new series on British social history.

Mass Media, Popular Culture and Social Change in Britain since 1945

Robert Pearce has been pleasantly surprised at the quality of a new textbook.

A commemorative album of photographs from Gandhi’s Salt March, c. 1930. British Library. Public Domain.

Gandhi, Non-Violence and Indian Independence

The legend of Mahatma Gandhi places his non-violent Non-Cooperation, Civil Disobedience, and Quit India movements at the heart of India’s independence. There's more to the story.

By Domination or by Default?

Simon Lemiuex asks why the Unionists dominated British politics between 1886 and 1906.

British prime minister Clement Attlee, US president Harry Truman, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, seated outdoors at Berlin conference, 1945. Library of Congress. Public Domain.

Attlee, Bevin and Britain’s Cold War

Caught between the end of empire and the birth of NATO, Britain's postwar Labour government played a key role in the early stages of the Cold War.

The Establishment of the Post-War Consensus, 1954-64

Andrew Boxer explains why party political strife lacked real substance in the period after 1945.

Jewish Brigade: Soldiers of Zion

Having fled Hitler’s Berlin, Oscar Westreich gained a new identity in Palestine. He eventually joined the British army, whose training of Jewish soldiers proved crucial to the formation of Israel, as his daughter, Mira Bar-Hillel, explains.