1987

Fresh air, sexual liberation, manual work and socialism was the heady brew offered by the leading exponent of anti-Establishment attitudes at the end of the Victorian...

Paul Dukes takes a look back on the Russian Revolution.

A passion for self-improvement and enriched opportunity mark Lovett out as an archetypal Victorian – far more than a mere Chartist agitator.

The unlikely setting of the East London suburb of Walthamstow was a centre for the infant British cinema industry at the turn of the century. Margaret O'Brien and...

by Christopher de Hamel

Nicholas Tucker remarks on a newly translated volume on prviate life from Ancient Roman times.

Volume 4: 1899-1913

The routes and reasons of historical pilgrims

Keith Nurse examines a collection of Indian art at the Powis Castle in Wales.

John Biggs-Davison reviews a revised edition after 30 years.

An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy

Esmond Wright examines the American constitution and its workings after two centuries.

Norman Housley reviews this exploration of the early 13th century

by David Rock

Keith Nurse on an urban archaeological undertaking in Blackfriars Bridge, London

Kings and Kingship in France and England in the seventeenth century

Christmas is a time for children... an adage the Middle Ages took literally by promoting choir boys into bishops at ceremonies linked to the festive season.

Max Beloff looks at a book on the inter-war arms and naval limitations and the Washington and London Treaties.

Michael House examines the life of the unconventional poet on the 200th anniversary of his birth.

Questions are raised about the death of men in John Franklin’s 1845 Arctic expedition.

by Peter Ackroyd

Despite the aspirations of Disraeli and others for 'one nation', the dynamics and disparities of Victorian society inexorably sharpened the sense of class identity...

People and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century England

G. E. Aylmer reviews two new books on Stuart England

The Triumph and the Tragedy of European Monarchy 1910-1918

Explorations of the Neolithic British monoliths

Philip Collins argues that Dickens' writing reflects not only a marvellous rapport with a cross-section of Victorian society but an integration of populism with a...

T.C. Barker on the 1,170 entries in the volumes of English and Welsh business history.

The formidable intellectual challenge to the English church by Wyclif and the pastoral work of his followers challenged the hitherto unquestioned acceptance of...

Ann Hills looks at the impact of the Derbyshire Historic Building Trust

Penelope Johnston takes a look back on the dinosaur age.

The first of the Romantic historians or a disgruntled propagandist of counter-revolution? Jeremy Black investigates how far Edmund Burke was a child of his times and...

Alexander to the Arab Conquest

The newly-found voices of the slaves caught up in the American Civil War, and heard through letters to their families, are a testimony to their tenacity and unity...

Jeremy Black examines the claim that Louis XV may have used contraception.

Penelope Corfield finds that economic progress and new self-awareness in language and gesture disturbed the tranquility of the ‘Age of Elegance'.

The equation of sound money and balanced budgets with moral probity became difficult to maintain once the high point of 'laissez-faire' had been reached in...

Juliet and Malcolm Vale trace through the web of secular status and religious instincts that made up the codes of conduct of English chivalry.

Christian king or swashbuckling hero? The immense popularity of King Arthur in medieval romance gave considerable scope for a range of images.

The last 150 years have seen a chequered but eventually triumphant reintegration of Jews into a society whose heritage they helped to mould, says C.C. Aronsfeld...

Lost illusions and gung-ho patriotism have both featured prominently in Hollywood’s reaction to the Vietnam War, but not to date some of the more unpleasant...

A myth for all seasons - the treatment through the centuries of Spain's medieval hero as a blend of Robin Hood and King Arthur provides revealing insights into the...