Sing Choirs of Angels
Ian Bradley reflects on the origins and development of Christmas carols.
Britain
Bodies at the Museum of London
Alex Werner previews a new exhibition on skeletons at the Museum of London.
The Death of Isaac Watts
Isaac Watts died on November 25th, 1748, aged 74, in Stoke Newington, Hackney.
Forty Years of the Victorian Society
Rebecca Daniels celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the Victorian Society, which set out in 1958 to save nineteenth-century architectural gems from destruction.
The English Context of the British Civil Wars
John Adamson argues that the importance of the Celtic fringe in the events of the 1640s has been exaggerated.
The Impact of the Second Reform Act
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.
The Tudor Nobility
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 Murderers in Victorian Britain
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.
50 Years of the NHS
Charles Webster reflects on the achievements and shortcomings of fifty years of the National Health Service.
Opening of the London Olympics
Richard Cavendish remembers the opening of the ‘Austerity Olympics’ on 29 July 1948.