Britain

David Johnson describes the infamous Marriage Act of 1753, which made marriage a tightly-regulated institution governed by church and state.

John Slatter celebrates the far-ranging contributions of Russian political émigrés to British life in the half-century before 1917.

Graham Goodlad asks if the media did more to support or to challenge politicians during the last century.

Roman Golicz looks at English attitudes to Russia during the Eastern Crisis of 1870-78.

Did the British government suppress evidence that might have prevented Wallis Simpson’s divorce? Edward VIII’s marriage prompted changes to the law, but did it also break it?

John Cookson asks what might have happened had Napoleon actually landed on British soil in 1803-5.

Antony Lockley examines the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and the propaganda battle between the Bolshevik and British forces on the Archangel front.

The colourful cartoon development of British national symbols provides an acute barometer to changes in 18th- and 19th-century public opinion. By Peter Mellini and Roy. T. Matthews.

Sheila O’Connell describes one of the key events in the British Museum’s 250th anniversary celebrations.

Bill Rolston describes the impact of an erstwhile slave, who toured the Emerald Isle speaking out against slavery in 1845.