Britain

Clive Emsley argues that nineteenth-century perceptions owed more to media-generated panic than to criminal realities.

Christopher Ray queries the accepted pictures of a reluctant victim of forces beyond her control.  

Antony Taylor reveals that Eco-Warriors were active more than a century ago.

On the tercentenary of the fire that destroyed it, Simon Thurley describes the significance of the royal Palace of Whitehall to the Tudor and Stuart monarchs who lived there.

Murial Chamberlain argues that current conceptions of Britain's power in the Victorian era owe more to his media management than to his foreign policy.

Edward Royle explains how labels were used in early industrial Britain for propaganda rather than description.  

Ivan Roots applies the 'new British' perspective to the 1650s.

St Paul’s Cathedral was opened on 2 December 1697.

Gavin Weightman finds historical precedents for Britain’s response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Michael Leech on the efforts to save and excavate the site of the original Globe Theatre in London.