England

Two significant new publications push the parameters of how we engage with the most revered writer in the English language.

Westminster Abbey was the focus of the world during King Charles III’s coronation. How and why was it built?

Christopher Hatton rose to great power as a favourite of Elizabeth I. Born in obscurity, why has he returned to it?

As the 19th century wore on, social reformers campaigned for charitable modernisation. Their target: England’s most useless foundations.

Eminent doctors and notorious charlatans vied for sick patients to treat in the cut-throat medical marketplace of Georgian England.

‘A day in the life’ of the 18th-century Bank of England.

The Windrush generation witnessed the Caribbean colonies from which they had emigrated achieve independence. Despite being an ocean away, they were not passive observers. 

Once the Second World War was won, Winston Churchill had two preoccupations: preserving his place in posterity and making lots of money. If they could be achieved simultaneously, so much the better. 

The governors of the London Foundling Hospital recruited an external network of nurses to care for children. For many, the bonds established endured.