Bodies at the Museum of London
Alex Werner previews a new exhibition on skeletons at the Museum of London.
Alex Werner previews a new exhibition on skeletons at the Museum of London.
Seeing the potential of the new technology, William Henry Smith opened his first railway bookstall on 1 November 1848.
The Morris Minor was launched at the British Motor Show of 1948, which opened at Earl's Court on October 27th.
Many have dismissed the last Stuart monarch as a nonentity or a figure of fun. Yet according to Richard Wilkinson she does not deserve her tarnished reputation.
Michael Camille shows how the marginal illustrations of a 14th-century psalter became some of our most familiar images of everyday life in medieval England.
The author of Wuthering Heights died on 19 December, 1848, aged 30.
Richard Cavendish remembers the opening of the ‘Austerity Olympics’ on 29 July 1948.
John Morrill re-examines a stormy period of religious history.
Richard Cavendish visits Plas Newydd, the seat of the Marquess of Anglesey.
Richard Rex argues that the main inspiration for the king's pick-and-mix religion was neither Protestant nor Catholic but Hebraic.