Edwardian

Bartitsu – rather than Baritsu – was a hybrid martial art that flourished in fin de siècle London. As an amateur boxer, Arthur Conan Doyle was fascinated.

Frances Borzello seeks to explain the rise of women’s clubs in London before the First World War – and their equally swift demise.

On November 9th, 1908, Aldeburgh unanimously elected as their leader Mrs Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, who became Britain’s first female mayor.

Graham Goodlad surveys the career of one of the most controversial figures in late Victorian and Edwardian politics.

Juliet Gardiner assesses the worth of ‘television history’ and pinpoints the value of ‘reality history’.

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of Sherlock Holmes' most famous case, March 25th, 1902.

Eric Ives looks at the cases of two English monarchs who broke with convention by selecting spouses for reasons of the heart, rather than political convenience.

Paula Bartley takes issue with those historians who depict the suffragettes of the Pankhursts' Women's Social and Political Union as elitists concerned only with upper- and middle-class women.

Edward Pearce compares the careers of two giants of Fleet Street, A.G. Gardiner and J.L. Garvin.