Corn, Catholics and the Constitution: The Tory Crisis of 1827-30
Graham Goodlad considers the reasons for the disintegration of the early nineteenth-century Tory Party, which had dominated British politics for more than four decades.
Britain
Sir John Simon
David Dutton asks whether Simon was the 'Worst Foreign Secretary since Ethelred the Unready'.
J.S. Mill on the Subjection of Women
John Stuart Mill saw the enfranchisement of women as 'the most important of all political movements' on the road to the equality of the sexes.
Deeds Not Words
June Purvis explores the career of Emmeline Pankhurst.
Death of Arthur, Prince of Wales
The son and heir of Henry VII died on 2 April 1502.
Popular Leisure and Industrialisation
Kenneth J. Baird examines change and continuity in 19th-century British social history.
Germany, Britain & the Coming of War in 1914
Richard Wilkinson explains what went wrong in Anglo-German relations before the First World War.
The Liberal Party in the 1920s
Mark Rathbone identifies the missing ingredients that prevented Liberal revival.
The Treaty of Amiens
The peace treaty that temporarily ended hostilities between France and Britain during the Revolutionary Wars was signed on 25 March 1802.
Slavery and the British
James Walvin reviews current ideas about the vast network of slavery that shaped British and world history for more than two centuries.