England

Recent royal crises reveal echoes of discontent in 1870s Britain, when disquiet with monarchy manifested in calls for its abolition. 

Art reveals the past – if you know how to look.

What does it mean to be happy? For poets, medieval and modern, joy comes in many forms. 

Child-murderer, arch villain, failed monarch, ‘northern’. Have efforts to redeem Richard III succeeded or is he still one of history’s worst kings?

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 the recent 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.