Britain

Simon Lemieux provides guidance on essays comparing the performance of the two adversaries in Victorian Britain.

Elaine Murphy looks at the two families who dominated the private provision of care for the insane in London in the early 19th century.

Michael Hunter tells how a mysterious phenomenon in the Highlands sparked a debate between scientific virtuosi and urban sceptics, in an episode that helps shed light on the vexed issue of ‘the decline of magic’.

David Johnson looks at the art of Sayers and Gillray and the role of pictorial satire in the destruction of a government.

David Moulson looks at the history of pewter, as a new dedicated museum opens in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Siegfried Beer looks at the links between The Third Man and British intelligence.

Roland Quinault looks at the state of the islands immediately following the Second World War.

LCC housing architects and their work between 1893 and 1914, by Michael Crowder

David Dutton analyses Austen Chamberlain's impact on British foreign policy, and European affairs, between the wars.

Michael Morrogh explains why Gladstone took up the cause of Irish home rule and why his policies failed so tragically.