Britain

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. 

Byron’s love affair with bare-knuckle boxing was shared by many of his fellow Romantics, who celebrated this most brutal of sports in verse. John Strachan examines an unlikely match.

Richard Willis charts how order was brought to the medical profession by the foundation of the General Medical Council 150 years ago.

By positioning him firmly within the changing context of his times, Lucy Wooding sees coherence in Henry VIII’s religious policies.

Graham Goodlad assesses the conduct of British foreign policy in the era of the Congress system.

York Membery looks back to the crunch 1920s election which saw the party of Gladstone narrowly pushed into third place – a position from which it has never recovered.

Frances Borzello seeks to explain the rise of women’s clubs in London before the First World War – and their equally swift demise.