Oswald Mosley as Entrepreneur
When money for Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists began to dry up in the late 1930s, he turned to novel schemes for fund-raising. James and Patience Barnes recount the intriguing story.
England
A Godly Peer? Leicester and the Puritans
Pious nobleman or calculating humbug - what is the true characterisation of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester? Simon Adams sifts the motives for the patronage given to some of Elizabeth's sternest religious critics by her favourite courtier.
Carry on Cricket - The Duke of Dorset's 1789 Tour
An English cricket team set out on a goodwill visit to Paris in the turbulent summer of 1789. But the proposed tour never took place. Overtaken by events, it turned back at Dover. John Goulstone and Michael Swanton compile the following account from broadsheets and from correspondence, between certain of the personalities involved.
A Watery Paradise - Rowland Vaughan and Hereford's 'Golden Vale'
'I speak of the Golden-Vale, the Lombardy of Herefordshire, the Garden of the Old Gallants, and Paradice of the backside of the Principallitie', wrote Rowland Vaughan. Mary Delorme introduces the exponent of an early irrigation system.
Charles, Cromwell and Channon
The campaign to preserve the Battle of Naseby site in Northamptonshire, a pivotal moment in the English Civil War.
The Lyceum Theatre, London
Jeffrey Richards looks at a stage where Victorian theatre attained its apogee
1066 and all that Revised
Cultural cataclysm or merely a modification of an Anglo-Saxon status quo? Antonia Gransden looks at views, past and present, of the Norman conquest.
William and Mary and the World of Maritime Asia
Charles Boxer examines the impact of 1688 on Anglo-Dutch relationship with nations east of Suez.
James II's Two Rebellions
Why did Monmouth fail and William of Orange succeed? Robin Clifton investigates the tale of two rebellions.