Britain

Richard Cavendish charts the life and work of Edmund Burke, who died on July 9th, 1797.

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of May 15th, 1847.

Simon Thurley sniffs the air in William III's Privy Garden at Hampton Court.

Onward Christian Socialists? Mark Bevir takes a timely look at a little-known phenomenon that was part of turn-of-the-century radicalism in Britain.

Patrick O'Brian evaluates the costs and benefits of Hanoverian and Victorian government.

Andrew Roberts defends Britain's war hero against his detractors, in our Longman/History Today Awards Lecture.

Christopher Ray argues that Hitler's high-profile plan for invading Britain was a blind: his main intention was to fool Stalin into believing he was safe.

Kenneth Baker argues that cartoonists have let recent Prime Ministers off lightly compared with their eighteenth-century predecessors.

Presentation of the past as a seed-bed of modernity gives it bogus relevance to modern concerns. Two hundred and fifty years after the battle of Culloden Jeremy Black looks at a classic instance – the military challenge of the Jacobites.