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Russel Tarr considers key issues from the life of the famous Cardinal.

C.M. Yonge shows how, during the nineteenth century, the British public began to take a keen interest in the wonders of their native beaches.

Reforms to divorce law inevitably prompt moral panic as they did in Victorian England.

A manager of men and a master of contemporary politics, writes Esmond Wright, Dundas was Pitt's energetic colleague “during the most critical years in Britis

What are stars made of?

Mark Rathbone analyses the causes and consequences of sudden changes of policy in nineteenth-century British politics.

The Loch Ness Monster’s first appearance on film captured both the hype and the scepticism surrounding cinema’s newest star.

Brutality, corruption and abuses of power in the Metropolitan Police at the turn of the 20th century led to an inquiry – but no reform.

Contrary to myth, it wasn’t Prince Albert but another German royal transplant who introduced the Christmas tree to Britain.

Political reputations are forged by actions, but the long view of history can be hard to predict.

Michael Foot celebrates the anniversary of the London Library with a tribute to its founder, Thomas Carlyle.

J.A.R. Pimlott studies the development of the Christmas Spirit—from Pagan Saturnalia to Victorian family party

The aim of Charles I’s foreign policy was to restore his nephew’s lands in the Rhineland. France, he thought, was the key to success. 

The House of Lords, often in the shadow of the Commons, asserted its power during the reigns of James I and his son, Charles I.

The trial of Captain William Kidd raised uncomfortable questions for the state about the pirate’s role in the consolidation of England’s early overseas empir

Anthony Fletcher uses the papers of his artistic great-aunt, who, as a young nationalist, wrote an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising, to explore her yo