Britain

Robert Poole revisits the ‘Calendar Riots’ of 1752 and suggests they are a figment of historians’ imagination.

Sugar magnate and art lover Henry Tate died on December 5th, 1899, aged 80.

Paula Bartley takes issue with those historians who depict the suffragettes of the Pankhursts' Women's Social and Political Union as elitists concerned only with upper- and middle-class women.

Robert D. Storch argues that the state of policing before Peel was not always as bad as the reformers liked to claim.

Ben Gray analyses the career and estimates the importance of the trade union leader who organised the Great Dockers' Strike of 1889.

William D. Rubinstein takes issue with the argument that Britain could have done more to prevent the Holocaust.

In assessing Britain's performance during 13 years of Conservative rule, Dilwyn Porter picks out the two themes which have dominated British history since the Second World War.

In an inimitable review of the last 160 years of party politics, Richard Kelley argues that the Conservative party is like a marriage that has gone wrong.

Owen Davies argues that a widespread belief in witchcraft persisted through 19th-century Britain, despite the scepticism engendered by the Enlightenment.

A.D. Harvey looks back a hundred years to the birth of modern local government in London - the launch-pad for many national political careers.