Poirot or Scheherazade?
Are historians inevitably faced with a choice between academic analysis or popular narrative, or should they aim to master both skills, asks Suzannah Lipscomb.
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For England’s Sake: Women Engineers in the First World War
Describing the First World War as ‘an engineers’ war’, which required ‘arms more than men’, Lloyd George acted on the urgent need to employ women in the armaments industries. Henrietta Heald explains how they in turn responded to the challenges.
Titanic's Sisters
Roger Hudson visits the Belfast shipyard in 1911, where the Titanic and her sister ships, Britannic and Olympic were constructed.
British Law and Order in Cyprus
Alexios Alecou explains how Britain sought to police the strategically important island in the eastern Mediterranean.
James V: The Lost King of Scotland
During his brief lifetime, James V was a popular ruler who aimed to maintain Scotland’s independence from his English uncle, Henry VIII. Did it cost him his life?
Nylon stockings take their bow
Stockings were an instant hit when they were first sold on October 27th 1939.
William Hogarth dies in London
The artist died on October 26th, 1764.
Warsaw’s Child of Freedom
Hanna Czarnocka, an octogenarian now living in London, recalls her part in one of the most courageous resistance actions of the Second World War.
Banks to the Rescue
The opening battle of the First World War was won by the Bank of England before the British had so much as fired a shot.
