Britain

Joshua Shotton defends a much-maligned statesman.

Robert Pearce outlines the extraordinary career of trade union leader-turned-politician J.H. Thomas.

Retha Warnicke examines the tumultuous career of Mary, Queen of Scots, before her long incarceration by her cousin Elizabeth I of England.

Jerry Brookshire shows that the ‘special relationship’ in 1945-51 was in safe, and curiously similar, hands.

Anthony Cross describes the introduction of British games to Russia.

David Johnson describes the infamous Marriage Act of 1753, which made marriage a tightly-regulated institution governed by church and state.

John Slatter celebrates the far-ranging contributions of Russian political émigrés to British life in the half-century before 1917.

Graham Goodlad asks if the media did more to support or to challenge politicians during the last century.

Roman Golicz looks at English attitudes to Russia during the Eastern Crisis of 1870-78.

John Cookson asks what might have happened had Napoleon actually landed on British soil in 1803-5.