History Matters

For 200 years, the House of Commons Library has guided politicians and policy.

Snoopy’s Flying Ace persona and his battles with the Red Baron reflected one generation’s memories of the First World War and shaped those of the next.

Britain’s psychological warfare campaign against the Nazis pre-empted the information wars of the 21st century. 

The British Library’s new exhibition is a star-studded tour of the Anglo-Saxons at their most eloquent.

The English republic was brought down in 1660 by the same forces that brought it to power.

The national campaign for suffrage saw women forming societies from Land’s End to John O’Groats.

The rise and fall of José Luis Bustamante’s left-wing presidency.

The power and perils of reconstructing the music of Napoleon's time.

Canada’s attempts to ‘assimilate’ its Indigenous population following the Indian Act of 1876 have been described as cultural genocide.

The cult of the quintessentially English saint was the product of the Vikings who defeated him.