Britain

Bruce Collins considers the mixture of adventurism, disaster, and lethal reprisal that marked British activities in Afghanistan under Victoria

Christine Lalumia sees the 1840s as the key moment in the creation of the modern celebration of Christmas.

The queen gave her last speech to Parliament on November 30th, 1601.

Jason Edwards takes a fresh look at attitudes to the nude in Victorian art, to coincide with Tate Britain's major exhibition on the subject opening this month.

Paul Brassley puts MAFF's policy towards Foot and Mouth Disease into historical perspective.

Roy Porter opens our new series on Picturing History, based on a series of lectures organised in conjunction with Reaktion Books, and shows how 18th-century images of the medical profession flow over into the work of political caricaturists.

Churchill became PM for a second time on October 26th, 1951, only a month away from his 77th birthday.

How far, asks R.D. Storch, did the reforms in the system of law enforcement, and the detection, trial and punishment of criminals introduced in the nineteenth century make for better order and a real reduction in crime?

Robin Evans shows that the neglect of the history of Wales, and of other small nations, impoverishes our historical understanding.

Paul Adelman explains a major turning point in modern British history.