Britain

Following her execution by firing squad in Belgium in 1915, Edith Cavell's body was eventually brought back from Brussels to England on May 15th, 1919.

The Lord Protector stood down on May 25th, 1659.

Wendy Moore catches a rare glimpse of a medical collection that includes tonsil guillotines and implements for trepanning.

Patricia Fara recounts the moving story of a gifted contemporary of Isaac Newton who came to symbolise the frustrations of generations of female scientists denied the chance to fulfil their talents.

R. E. Foster examines the career of Pitt the Younger.

Janet Copeland introduces one of the most important feminist figures in twentieth-century history.

David Hipshon regrets the degree to which our history syllabuses have censored the roles of British heroes.

In 1947, as Zionist insurgents wreaked havoc, British special forces in Palestine adopted counterinsurgency tactics that attracted worldwide condemnation. David Cesarani discusses a scandal whose ramifications persist to this day.

Richard Cavendish remembers the birth of Birth of the First Earl of Clarendon on February 18, 1609.