A Museum for British Lahore
M. Naeem Qureshi on a remnant of empire which has moved beyond being a mere repository of the Raj.
M. Naeem Qureshi on a remnant of empire which has moved beyond being a mere repository of the Raj.
Richard Cavendish remembers the events of May 15th, 1847.
Andy Croll on how publishing anti-social behaviour is a trick we have copied from the Victorians.
Patrick O'Brian evaluates the costs and benefits of Hanoverian and Victorian government.
A budding front-bench politician and his mistress ... not a tract for our times but an 1860s relationship recovered and reconstructed from love letters by the politician's biographer, Patrick Jackson.
He marketed himself as a man of principle - a public image of which David Eastwood exposes the inaccuracy.
David Nash considers a cause celebre that tested tensions between pious tradition and a 'progressive' age.
Bernard Porter looks at the Victorian capitalist who made his fortune from dealing in weapons of war and constructed a Northumberland haven with the proceeds.
The best-loved of Britain's novelists penned a tale that struck a potent chord in the popular revival of the season of goodwill. Geoffrey Rowell explains its appeal and its powerful religious and social overtones.