Britain

Bernard Porter looks at the Victorian capitalist who made his fortune from dealing in weapons of war and constructed a Northumberland haven with the proceeds.

Karl Hack on the links between dams and decolonisation and the ups and downs of Anglo-Malaysian relations.

Robert Thorne on when, and if, Britain’s modern buildings should be listed as historic.

Richard Cavendish muses on the 'stuffed' of history in the animal kingdom in Bodmin Moor.

Richard Shone looks at the foray into portraiture of a leading British artist and reflects on the tensions of painter-patron relations in the cultural climate of 1930s Britain.

Richard Cavendish discovers the riches and Diaspora and beyond in the Manchester Jewish museum.

Tim Knox looks at how the explosion of interest in all things Chinese in 18th-century Britain found a centrepiece in the royal gardens of George III.

Did the British state help the UK's transformation into a position of world industrial dominance? Were 'gentlemen capitalists' or no-nonsense industrialists fawned on or frustrated by government and its agents? Martin Daunton addresses a controversial historical debate.

David Armitage looks at the Bank's founder and his contribution to the Financial Revolution that arguably launched Britain on the road to economic pre-eminence.

Eric Evans looks at the industrial and economic backdrop to the developments of Britain's Welfare State.