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Russel Tarr asks key questions about the religious radicals of the 16th century.

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.

John Wesley spent two years as a chaplain in Georgia in the 1730s; Stuart Andrews describes how forty years later he was much preoccupied with the

Fundamentalism has become the face of Islam in the West. It was not always so and need not be in the future, says Tim Stanley.

Were the fifties a dull decade? Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson has the answer.

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

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

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

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

A new form of antiquarianism? Celebrating experience at the expense of analysis? Seven leading historians seek to define social history.