The desire to distinguish between the deserving and undeserving poor is nothing new, says David Filtness. The founder of the Thames Police, Patrick Colquhoun, was both radical and draconian in his approach to crime and Poor Law reform.
Roger Hudson explains a photographic panorama, taken at the beginning of the Second Afghan War, of the ancient and forbidding fortress of Bala Hissar.
Henry VIII’s masterful administrator and reformer forged an unlikely friendship with a prioress, as Mary C. Erler explains.
Why do modern Britons still find it so hard to acknowledge their revolutionary past?
The newspaper was born when publishers in Protestant lands began to produce printed versions of the hand-written bulletins that had provided news for Europe’s elites. It was to prove a difficult birth, as Andrew Pettegree explains.
The Japanese ruler was laid to rest on February 24th, 1989.
The playwright was baptised on February 26th, 1564.
Having conquered England, the Viking king died after a fall from his horse on February 3rd, 1014.
Adopting the guise of a man was a path to influence for medieval women. It could be a dangerous one, too.
The elites of ancient Rome transformed the nature of hunting.
