Britain

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

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

In the event of a successful Nazi invasion of Britian, Adolf Hitler proposed rural Shropshire as his headquarters. Roger Moorhouse explores why he would have chosen such a location.

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

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

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

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

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

The recent introduction of police commissioners to England and Wales is supposed to bring the force closer to the people. But, asks Clive Emsley, where is the evidence for that?

Syrie Maugham was a businesswoman and beauty whose interior designs became a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic. However her relationships with a series of prominent men left her personal life in tatters. Frances Larson tells her story.