Britain

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.

David Dutton explores the twilight years of the British statesman following the 1906 General Election.

Julia Phillips charts the history of women in British society.

Alan Heesom discusses 19th-century politics either side of the Irish Sea.

'It's no fish ye're buying - it's men's lives', wrote Sir Walter Scott, and looking at the fishing industry in Scotland in the last century involves a vivid recreation of the hard life of the isolated fishing communities, their work and their family life.

Chris Cook continues our special feature on the Work Ethic.

In the second of our article on Governing the Capital, Ian Doolittle argues that it was during the great reforming Liberal ministry of Gladstone in 1880-85, that the City of London came nearest to being voted out of existence

Until 1883, the Football Association Cup was won every year by former public schoolboys. As Christopher Andrew shows here, at the Cup Final that May, a working-class team from Lancashire snatched the honours from the Old Etonians.