Modern

Oliver Warner traces the cultural footprints left by a national hero.

George Woodcock compares Canada's two famous gold rushes and their differing economic and social effects on the Pacific West.

Elizabeth Wiskemann finds that the German students’ societies have played an unusual and a characteristic part in the history of modern Germany, and yet one which their mysterious rites and code of honour have obscured, even among their compatriots.

Alastair Buchan writes that banker, economist, editor and critic, Bagehot “was the antithesis of the grand Victorian man of letters.”

Lord Kinross unearths the problematic modern history of Cyprus.

Felix W. Crosse assesses the life and legacy of Duke Charles of Brunswick.

These letters, written between 1797 and 1815, are part of a series from Maria Josepha Stanley to her father Lord Sheffield. At the beginning of the period Maria Josepha had been married six months, and was living in Newcastle-upon-Tyne where her husband, a Captain in the Cheshire Militia, had been posted with his regiment to resist any attempted invasion by the forces of the Directorate. Edited by Lord Stanley of Alderley.

Dorothy George looks at the development of political - and often satirical - public artwork in early modern Britain.

Administrator, Orientalist, patron of science and founder of Singapore, Raffles was an enlightened Governor of Java during the British occupation, 1811-1816. By Dorothy Woodman.

F.M.H. Markham profiles Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, the French political theorist and early advocate for a centralised, technocratic society.

A biographical portrait by Lord David Cecil of William Lamb, the early 19th century parliamentarian better known as Lord Melbourne.

George Charles Henry Victor Paget, the 7th Marquis of Anglesey, shares the stories behind the trip that his ancestor, the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, paid to the Court of Russia with his sons during the summer of 1839.

George Pendle finds that the authoress of Little Arthur's History of England was also an inquisitive and adventurous traveller.