Victorian

J.H. Plumb shows how, between 1857 and 1888, after much controversy, the mystery of the Nile’s source was finally solved by the successive discoveries of Speke, Burton, Livingstone and Stanley.

A study of diplomacy in transition by Nicholas Henderson

A Liberal, a Catholic and a great Historian who yet never composed a great work of history—these are some of the aspects in which Roland Hill considers Lord Acton's career.

Ann Dewar recounts the once-annual political battle to make Derby Day a parliamentary holiday

The Monds were significant figures not only as the architects of a great modern industry but as representatives of a phase of industrial development that nowadays belongs to the past. Here Dr. W.H. Chaloner traces the rise of these determined individualists.

W.F. Knapp reappraises a great historian of nineteenth century France.

Emile de Groot on the often fractious but ever-intimate relationship between European powers and Egypt.

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, accounts for the last hours in active British politics for the 'Grand Old Man'.

A detailed account of the pageantry, expense and spectacle of the First Duke of Wellington's public funeral.

Geoffrey Grigson places the great English landscape artist in historical context.

T. Charles Edwards on the position of Catholics in Victorian England.

The memories of Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, of the political crisis that Gladstone's final resignation caused at the heart of the British government in 1894.

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