History Today

The remains of the Palace were almost completely destroyed by the fire of 1834 and, writes L.W. Cowie, the Houses of Parliament were rebuilt by Sir Charles Barry.

Briefly a royal palace, writes L.W. Cowie, Bridewell became a hospital, an apprentices’ school and a reformatory for vagrants and prostitutes.

L.W. Cowie takes the reader on a visit to a city monastery, for three hundred years associated with the Dominicans and, after the Reformation, with the theatre.

‘I am nearly certain that this tunnel will be made sooner or later,’ declared an expert of the 1880s. 

Darwin’s cousin in the nineteenth century, writes C.H. Corning, was a daring explorer of the world and a pioneer in the scientific study of racial qualities.

America was always newsworthy in the 18th century, but, writes Wallace Brown, the emphasis was on exotic items, heroic or villainous.

After years of service in the West Indies, writes Ian Bradley, Ramsay in England helped to inspire the crusade for Abolition.

Since Tudor times, and for four centuries, the observance of the Sabbath was strictly enjoined by Government regulation.

In 1701, writes L.R. Betcherman, a leading member of the Whig Junto retired to Rome for the sake of his health.

J.F. Battick and N.C. Klimavicz describe a parliamentary dispute over Cromwell’s statue.