Britain

In examining British politics from 1940 to 1945, Kevin Jefferys explains why the man who was widely perceived as winning the war lost the 1945 election.

Ian Bradley reflects on the origins and development of Christmas carols.

Alex Werner previews a new exhibition on skeletons at the Museum of London.

Isaac Watts died on November 25th, 1748, aged 74, in Stoke Newington, Hackney.

Rebecca Daniels celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the Victorian Society, which set out in 1958 to save nineteenth-century architectural gems from destruction.

John Adamson argues that the importance of the Celtic fringe in the events of the 1640s has been exaggerated.

The 1867 Reform Act did not set the British electoral system in stone until the Third Reform Act of 1884-85. John Walton reveals that its effects were complex, varied and quite often unintended.

In this assessment of Tudor peers, Matthew Christmas argues that the nobility retained their importance as a class and are fundamental to an understanding of the Tudor period.

Women as perpetrators of crime, rather than its victims, were figures of especial fascination and loathing in the Victorian popular press. Judith Knelman delves deeper.