The Caoutchouc of Commerce
Hugh Latimer unearths the role of the rubber plant in the story of empire and Malayan nation-building.
History Today
Enoch Powell at the Polls
Roger Hudson expands on a photograph of Enoch Powell campaigning in his Wolverhampton seat in 1970.
Painting and History: Turner After a Century
Geoffrey Grigson places the great English landscape artist in historical context.
The Decline of Roman Britain
C.E. Stevens searches the elusive world of ancient Britain.
Papal Aggression: 1851
T. Charles Edwards on the position of Catholics in Victorian England.
Mr. Gladstone's Last Cabinet
The memories of Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, of the political crisis that Gladstone's final resignation caused at the heart of the British government in 1894.
1745: The Last Campaign on English Soil
T.H. McGuffe describes the invasion, and subsequent hurried retreat, of England during the Jacobite Rebellion.
Versailles: The Making of a Palace
Charles Mauricheau-Beaupré surveys the broad sweep of history occupants of the Palace of Versailles have witnessed, and makes a case for its rehabilitation.
Builders of Industry: The Canal Duke
W.H. Chaloner profiles the contribution of Francis Egerton, the last Duke of Bridgewater, to the canal systems of Lancashire, and England at large.
People, Race and Nation in These Islands, Part II
Rayner Heppenstall uses the examples of Britain and Ireland to argue against absolutist views of race and nation.