400 Years of the Bodleian Library
Celebrating the library and the University of Oxford’s greatest benefactor.
Britain
Museum of the British Empire and Commonwealth
In-house historical adviser Katherine Prior introduces this new museum which opens at the end of September.
First British Atomic Bomb Test
Britain's first atomic bomb was detonated on 3 October 1952.
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.
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.