Palmerston
Murial Chamberlain argues that current conceptions of Britain's power in the Victorian era owe more to his media management than to his foreign policy.
Victorian
A Museum for British Lahore
M. Naeem Qureshi on a remnant of empire which has moved beyond being a mere repository of the Raj.
Daniel O'Connell, Irish Nationalist, Dies in Genoa
Richard Cavendish remembers the events of May 15th, 1847.
'Naming and Shaming' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Andy Croll on how publishing anti-social behaviour is a trick we have copied from the Victorians.
Taxation 1688-1914
Patrick O'Brian evaluates the costs and benefits of Hanoverian and Victorian government.
'Skittles' and the Marquis - A Victorian Love Affair
A budding front-bench politician and his mistress ... not a tract for our times but an 1860s relationship recovered and reconstructed from love letters by the politician's biographer, Patrick Jackson.
Robert Peel - Statesman or Turncoat?
He marketed himself as a man of principle - a public image of which David Eastwood exposes the inaccuracy.
Blasphemy in Victorian Britain? Foote and the Freethinker
David Nash considers a cause celebre that tested tensions between pious tradition and a 'progressive' age.
Cragside
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.