50 Years of the NHS
Charles Webster reflects on the achievements and shortcomings of fifty years of the National Health Service.
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Images of a Dead Queen
‘There was such a generall sighing and groning, and weeping, and the like hath not beene seene or knowne in the memorie of man’: visual images of the death of Elizabeth I played a key role in her funeral and in creating the ensuing cult of Gloriana.
A Fatal Guarantee: Poland, 1939
Despite Britain’s commitment to appeasement, the 1939 Agreement of Mutual Assistance with Poland led London into the Second World War. What changed?
Kashmir: The Unanswered Question
Vernon Hewitt on one of the bitterest legacies of partition.
Partition - The Human Cost
Mushirul Hasan looks at the reflection of the trauma and tragedy of partition through literature and personal histories.
Carthage: The God in the Stone
‘Carthage must be destroyed’ - words from Cato the Elder to seal the Punic city’s fate in its epic struggle with Ancient Rome. But what was its religion and society like?
Why Chamberlain Really Fell
Tony Corfield offers a provocative new interpretation of the events that brought Churchill to power in the spring of 1940.
The Rise and Fall of the Age of Miracles
Roy Porter charts the whirlwind of medical triumphs that promised limitless progress in human health and our more sober reflections on the eve of the third millennium.
Edmond Halley: Astronomer and Explorer
Edmond Halley was far more than a man who watched comets. His adventures aboard HMS Paramour represent one of the earliest voyages of purely scientific discovery.
Citizen Kane, the New Deal, and the Second World War
Orson Welles’ belief in the New Deal and his anxieties over American isolationism in the years before Pearl Harbour are inextricably entangled in the epic Citizen Kane.