Political

The First of the Hundred Days

Franklin Delano Roosevelt – widely regarded as one of the greatest of all American presidents –  began his first term in office on 4 March, 1933.

Pages of History: Daumier’s Political Eye

Peter J. Beck describes the work of Honoré Daumier, born 200 years ago this month, which provided an early visual documentary newsreel and commentary on the key political and social movements in mid-nineteenth century France.

Radical East Anglia

Peter Clark celebrates some of the ‘awkward squad’ associated with eastern England.