From Strolling Player to Banker-Duchess
Joan Perkin tells the rags-to-riches story of Harriet Mellon, the actress who married the banker Thomas Coutts.
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Lady Antonia Fraser
Daniel Snowman meets the biographer of Tudors and Stuarts, and the author of The Weaker Vessel and The Gunpowder Plot.
Minutemen of the Third Reich
Perry Biddiscombe traces the historical background to the contemporary neo-Nazi and skinhead violence in Germany.
The Air That I Breathe
Juliet Gardiner former editor of History Today, describes the first steps on her path to becoming a historian.
The Irishmen of Birds
John F.M. Clark looks at the changing fortunes of the house sparrow
Portrait Of Britain: 1700
Allan Macinnes investigates the state of the islands at a crucial moment in British state formation.
Birth of Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, the most famous historian of his time, was born on St Crispin's Day, October 25th, 1800.
'Seynt George, on Whom Alle Englond Hath Byleve'
Samantha Riches describes the role of St. George as a patron saint in medieval England
The Chinese Invade Tibet
The ‘People’s Liberation Army’ crossed into Kham, the eastern province of Tibet, on 7 October 1950.
A Midsummer Night's Dream Is Published
On October 8th 1600, Thomas Fisher published A Midsummer Night's Dream in quarto format thought to have been printed from Shakespeare’s own handwritten copy.