As the Museum of London launches its new Prehistory Gallery, its recently appointed Director, Jack Lohman, gives us his perspective on the challenges of bringing the distant past to life. Mr Lohman, a born Londoner, joined the Museum in August, moving from South Africa where he was responsible for developing a common vision for the country’s fifteen national museums.
Celebrating the library and the University of Oxford’s greatest benefactor.
In-house historical adviser Katherine Prior introduces this new museum which opens at the end of September.
Britain's first atomic bomb was detonated on 3 October 1952.
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.
David Dutton asks whether Simon was the 'Worst Foreign Secretary since Ethelred the Unready'.
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.
June Purvis explores the career of Emmeline Pankhurst.
The son and heir of Henry VII died on 2 April 1502.
Kenneth J. Baird examines change and continuity in 19th-century British social history.
