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In listening to the war’s loudest voices, Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare by Gregory Carleton drowns out the dive

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.

Russell Tarr sees similarities but also important contrasts in the foreign policies of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy

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

Victorian Methodists, writes Stuart Andrews,

A thief who had been dead for more than a century caused a moral panic in the theatres of Victorian London. 

Second-hand books don’t just tell the stories of their authors but of their former owners, too.

As convicts celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday on remote Norfolk Island, debates raged over the purpose of punishment and the merits of Alexander Maconochi

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.