In his actions and writings, Churchill made General Mackesy the scapegoat for the allied failure to recapture Norway in 1940. Was this a fair assessment? And why did Churchill pursue the cause with such bitterness? Mackesy's son explains.
It may have lacked the newsworthy drama of the earlier acts, but the Reform legislation of 1884-85 wrought 'great organic changes in the British constitution', writes Paul Adelman.
Roger A. Mason on the myths and power of Scotland's line of kings
Norman Macdougall explores the vicissitudes of James IV's reign; although regarded as a paragon amongst Scottish kings, his downfall owed much to his failings.
In 1926 the mining dispute led to the General Strike. Chris Wrigley writes how the memory of the hardship of those months has left a permanent legacy of bitterness in industrial relations in the coal industry.
David Low, the cartoonist, met Horatio Blimp, a retired Colonel, in a Turkish bath near Charing Cross in the early 1930s. Many agree with C.S. Lewis that Colonel Blimp was 'the most characteristic expression of the English temper in the period between the two wars.'
Jenny Wormald introduces a series of ten articles on Scottish history.
Robert Thorne on London's architects and their work.
John Campbell on the curious case of F.E. Smith and the 'black diaries' of Sir Roger Casement
The Duke of Wellington proved a gift to the cartoonists of 'Punch' - he was a figure the magazine's readership would recognise, and he did not look unlike Mr Punch himself.
