Britain

From Elizabethan laws to modern food campaigns: the long history of Britain's patriotic consumers.

The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 was not the great step forward it is sometimes purported to be.

The Hydra, a magazine produced by shell shock patients, was pioneering as a mental health care treatment.

Few episodes in the history of the British Labour movement have been as mythologised as that in which six Dorset farm labourers were shipped to Australia for their trade union activities.

Volunteer rationing in the First World War depended on patriotism, but that could only go so far.

Churchill’s vision of Britain’s role in the world may provide the key to Brexit.

In using Churchill to justify his Brexit campaign, Boris Johnson 'paints a barbarically simplified and ill-informed picture of what Churchill stood for'.

In the debate over the term 'Dark Ages' the importance of Tintagel in early medieval Britain should not be forgotten.

Andrew Lycett uncovers the intriguing, labyrinthine paths to publication of the histories of MI5, MI6, GCHQ and the Special Operations Executive.