Britain

Richard Pflederer on the technological and cartographical advances of the early modern naval powers of Holland and England

Richard Cavendish looks at an exhibition at the Museum of London on the diversity of the capital.

Tom August explores the imperial assumptions - and the hints of independence from Britannia - to be found in the paintings and artists on show in the Palace of Arts at the British Empire Exhibition.

Oriental dealers Eskenazi and their new London outlet

Tabloid intrusion into the lives of the famous via the photo lens was a feature of Edwardian, as well as contemporary, Britain, as Nicholas Hiley here intriguingly reveals.

John Powell chronicles the activities of a Midlands ring of counterfeiters whose activities open a window on the economic and social ambiguities of late Georgian England.

Raymond Postgate is well-known today as the founder of The Good Food Guide, but he was also a vivid eyewitness of events as a Londoner under siege from Hitler's bombs. We publish here for the first time, a selection from his wartime correspondence with the American publisher Alfred Knopf, introduced and edited by his son, John Postgate.

Richard Cavendish finds plenty to chew the cud on, courtesy of the BAHS

Peter Atkins finds that though we might be considering toll roads, the Victorians were glad to get rid of them.