Britain

The clergyman and chemist Joseph Priestley died February 6th, 1804, aged seventy-one.

Peter R. Neumann shows the relevance of ‘The Troubles’ to allied policy in Iraq.

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.