1951

Ts’ên Shên was one of the celebrated poets of the T’ang dynasty. Here, Arthur Waley explores his body of work and the tumultuous career that propelled it.

A discussion between Napoleon, exiled in St. Helena, and Henry Ellis, returning with Lord Amherst’s embassy to China, about England's international standing.

Charles Seltman presents the discovery and patronage of Herculaneum as a classical drama.

Julian Huxley traces the development of writing and language, and expounds on its meaning for humanity.

Bryan Little pays an architectural visit to the famous city on the Avon.

The tall army recruits known as the Potsdam Giants, F.L. Carsten writes, played a considerable part in the British diplomacy during the early 18th century, and the...

A.P. Ryan introduces the Grand Old Man of the nineteenth century Conservative Party.

Philip Magnus analyses the political, personal, and literary careers of one of Britain's most influential Victorian premiers.

D.H. Pennington on the man chiefly responsible for passing the Reform Act.

M.G. Brock profiles one of Britain's most able yet ill-fated premiers.

A.J.P. Taylor on one of those surprising outsiders with a touch of mischief – in this case a man whose political career spanned nearly sixty years.

Asa Briggs evaluates the impact of Sir Robery Peel, a great Prime Minister unwilling to become a popular politician.

J.H. Plumb analyses the career of the man recognised as Britain's first prime minister.

A.L. Lloyd pays an historical visit to the capital of north-eastern England.

Michael Rix takes an historical and architectural look at England's second city.

W.G. Hoskins pays an historical visit to Exeter.

W.G. Hoskins pays an historical visit to Leicester.

Garth Christian appraised the “ancient character” of Lewes, taking in its Puritanical influence, its legacy of ironworks and its architectural highlights.

J.D. Chambers pays an historical visit to the regional capital of the English East Midlands.

Arnold N. Shimmin pays an historical visit to the inventive Yorkshire city.

John Rodgers pays a visit to the historical viking city of York

W.H. Chaloner considers the life and times of one of Georgian England's foremost industrial figures.

W.H. Chaloner profiles the contribution of Francis Egerton, the last Duke of Bridgewater, to the canal systems of Lancashire, and England at large.

Certain mysteries of pre-Saxon Britain are decoded by Jacquetta Hawkes 

Michael Jaffe traces the relationship between king and master.

J. Guthrie Oliver discusses a major source of funds for both medieval England and the Church.

Christopher Sykes on an influential, eventful - though entirely fictional - parliamentary career.

A.J.P. Taylor gives a decidedly mid-20th century view of a mid-19th century war, its aims, and legacy. Jeremy Black offered his own...

Keith Feiling suggests that the Battle of Worcester holds central importance, not only in the unique character of the Lord Protector, but for the history of...

Charles Seltman visits the Holiest Place of the Greeks. Part I of a two part series. Second part can be...

Charles Seltman analyses the role of the darker deity in Ancient Greece. Second of a two part series. The first part can be...

S.M. Toyne tells the strange tale of Johann Frederick Struensee, Denmark's 18th century German dictator.

Quentin Bell unveils deeper meanings from the ever-evolving history of fashion and fancy dress.

Hugh Trevor-Roper attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding authorship of Charles I's purported last testament.

L.B. Namier on both the pre- and post-war case against would-be plotters within the Nazi regime.

Wilfrid Blunt explains the history of British flora's natives and invasives

A.H. Burne assesses the achievements of the leading generals of the first English Civil War.

Alan Yorke-Long documents the beginnings of Georgian England's affair with the music of the Hanoverian composer.

Walter Elliott on how an illustrious institution has weathered countless storms.

S.M. Toyne draws upon Guy Fawkes’ background in an effort to better understand his single-minded motivation.

Michael Howard introduces the most popular historian in Victorian England.

Sheldon van Auken on the great English historian of the Reformation.

Christopher Dawson profiles the historical writing of "the last of the encyclopaedists".

Elizabeth Wiskemann re-examines a period of transition between the House of Savoy's reign and the dominance of the Pope in Italy.

Max Beloff profiles the "real author of the Constitution" and one of the most extraordinary of the USA's Founding Fathers.

Sir Kenneth Clark discovers echoes of both ancient and modern in a true Renaissance man.

Maurice Collis visits the former Dutch and Portuguese port colony.

On its centenary, Maurice Powicke traced the history of the Lanchashire educational establishment.

Erich Eyck looks at the battles fought - and won - by Napoleon's Prussian nemisis.

Dixon Hoste attempts to locate a common element between Marxism and traditional Chinese ideas.

A.L. Lloyd savours modern Argentina, “a civilization of horses, cattle and leather”.

G.M. Young portrays the golden political calm and sense of cultural comfort at play in mid-Victorian England.

The memories of Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, of the political crisis that Gladstone's final resignation caused at the heart of the British...

G.H.L. LeMay sets the unique military features of Napoleonic France against those of the eighteenth century at large.

D.W. Brogan offers a panoramic view of the Big Apple's architecture, society and recent economic history.

Doreen  & Geoffrey Agnew relate the tale of Lawrence's Waterloo Collection, his tour of Europe, and portraits of contemporary political heavyweights

Denys Sutton sees the revolutionary work of French artists reflected in the Spring of Nations.

W.R. Jeudwine accounts for the patrons, masters and masterpieces of the Northern Renaissance

Geoffrey Grigson places the great English landscape artist in historical context.

T. Charles Edwards on the position of Catholics in Victorian England.

D.W. Brogan pays a historical visit to the city of light in the first half of the twentieth century.

Rayner Heppenstall highlights the problems inherent in divisions of British and Irish history along racial lines.

Rayner Heppenstall uses the examples of Britain and Ireland to argue against absolutist views of race and nation.

Max Beloff's letter addresses previous articles by Alan Bullock.

F.M. Godfrey describes the life of an important late medieval painter of royal subjects.

A.J. Halpern queries the source of Russia's disputed status as a European state.

The Russians were the first Europeans to sense California's potential, George Edinger writes, and had they not sold their settlement there in 1841, seven years...

Jean Lindsay queries the medieval path of scientific enquiry.

Geoffrey Grigson explores how a variety of views of Stonehenge has surfaced, and re-surfaced, in popular literature over time.

C.E. Stevens searches the elusive world of ancient Britain.

T.H. McGuffe analyses the failure of Admiral Byng to relieve the besieged British forces against French onslaught.

Cyrill Falls describes how a succession of rebellions challenged a sodden but sturdy English soldiery in late 16th century Ireland.

Arthur Waley profiles life and ideas in the 3rd century Chinese capital at the time of its capture and destruction by Huns.

Henry Bashford traces the development of a key aspect of modern medicine.

Henry Bashford looks back at the birth of one of modern medicine's pillars.

C.H.N. Routh records the travels and travails of the Boer pioneers

Alan Bullock ruminates on the role of historians in Western society.

Joan M. Fawcett utilises the household records for the Countess of Leicester, sister of Henry III, to retrace a crucial year for the de Montfort fortunes.

Quentin Bell looks at the revolutions at work within fashion over the years, rational and otherwise.

Maurice Cranston assesses the background and impact to Thomas Hobbes' masterwork of religious and political philosophy.

Richard Hough explains how the epic construction of the first railway line linking England's largest cities changed the country forever.

C.V. Wedgwood challenges the accepted view of Charles I's fated minister, Thomas Wentworth.

Eric Linklater describes the odyssey of Scotland's national story in lyrical and poetic terms.

G.H.L. LeMay documents the dramatic fall and resurrection of Lord John Russell's government.

Christopher Sykes delivers a historical backdrop to mid-20th century tension on the Persian Gulf.

Christopher Dawson attempts to rebut the arguments previously made by...

David Footman on the conspiracies that surround the Order of Assassins.

Leonard Schapiro examines the reasons behind the failure of the other revolutionary forces in revolutionary Russia.

In the second of a two part series, G.D.H. Cole analyses and compares several sets of census data to guage an accurate portrait of class demographics in Britain....

W.R. Jeudwine unearths the 17th century roots of France's age-old struggle for influence and power in the province of Lorraine.