Papal Aggression: 1851
T. Charles Edwards on the position of Catholics in Victorian England.
History Today
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.
The Defense of Minorca
T.H. McGuffe analyses the failure of Admiral Byng to relieve the besieged British forces against French onslaught.
British Towns and Cities: Nottingham
J.D. Chambers pays an historical visit to the regional capital of the English East Midlands.
George II and Handel
Alan Yorke-Long documents the beginnings of Georgian England's affair with the music of the Hanoverian composer.
Historians Reconsidered: H.G. Wells
Christopher Dawson profiles the historical writing of "the last of the encyclopaedists".