Edwardian
The General Election of 1915
Ian Garrett shows that well-informed counter-factual speculation can help us understand better the causes and consequences of what did happen.
Tea, Toilets & Typewriters: Women's Clubs in London
Frances Borzello seeks to explain the rise of women’s clubs in London before the First World War – and their equally swift demise.
Aldeburgh’s First Lady
On November 9th, 1908, Aldeburgh unanimously elected as their leader Mrs Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, who became Britain’s first female mayor.
Joseph Chamberlain: 'the one who made the weather'
Graham Goodlad surveys the career of one of the most controversial figures in late Victorian and Edwardian politics.
The Edwardian Country House
Juliet Gardiner assesses the worth of ‘television history’ and pinpoints the value of ‘reality history’.
Publication of the Hound of the Baskervilles
Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of Sherlock Holmes' most famous case, March 25th, 1902.
Marrying for Love: The Experience of Edward IV and Henry VIII
Eric Ives looks at the cases of two English monarchs who broke with convention by selecting spouses for reasons of the heart, rather than political convenience.
Suffragettes, Class and Pit-Brow Women
Paula Bartley takes issue with those historians who depict the suffragettes of the Pankhursts' Women's Social and Political Union as elitists concerned only with upper- and middle-class women.
Eminent Edwardian Editors
Edward Pearce compares the careers of two giants of Fleet Street, A.G. Gardiner and J.L. Garvin.