History Matters

The Gowers Report of 1950 was the first step in the postwar rescue of Britain’s country house heritage.

A Japanese genre of painting, rooted in Buddhist ideals, takes an unflinching view of the dead.

The First World War offered new opportunities for enterprising female doctors.

Coffeehouses and coffee were not as closely related as one might think.

Attempts by the US and French governments to buy favourable coverage in British newspapers proved a costly failure.

A lively, privileged group of young intellectuals grew ever more alarmed by the crises that struck Britain in the mid-1740s.

Though remembered as the era of the housewife, momentous change in the status of British women began in the 1950s.

The uneasy balance between rulers and counsellors has been a feature of British politics for centuries.

What did the Easter 1920 riots in Jerusalem reveal about British rule in Palestine?

How Worcestershire sauce changed the way we look at medieval manuscripts.