England

Found guilty of the Temple Murders in 1733, Sarah Malcolm became the most notorious woman in Britain. Did she commit the crime alone? Did she commit it at all?

The first-known secular bell-ringing society was founded on 2 February 1604.

The industry, enlightenment, history and soft-power of Birmingham.

The Dissolution of the Monasteries is a well-worn tale. Are we getting the whole story?

A century of struggle over the meaning of ‘Jerusalem’. 

From alliances, to open warfare; from tense meetings on bridges, to collective mourning at family funerals: French and English royalty were united by marriage and divided by war.

A great historian and public intellectual, Thomas Fuller championed moderation and responsibility in a time of war, polarisation and misinformation. 

Dinner parties in the ‘Revolutionary Age’ with the publisher Joseph Johnson.

Early modern parish libraries, frequently established for the benefit of the general public, were often deliberately inaccessible.

Four historians consider whether the traditional Whig history of Britain, as one of evolutionary political progress, has ever been challenged by events.