Roy Porter opens our new series on Picturing History, based on a series of lectures organised in conjunction with Reaktion Books, and shows how 18th-century images of the medical profession flow over into the work of political caricaturists.
Churchill became PM for a second time on October 26th, 1951, only a month away from his 77th birthday.
How far, asks R.D. Storch, did the reforms in the system of law enforcement, and the detection, trial and punishment of criminals introduced in the nineteenth century make for better order and a real reduction in crime?
Robin Evans shows that the neglect of the history of Wales, and of other small nations, impoverishes our historical understanding.
Paul Adelman explains a major turning point in modern British history.
Peter Neville surveys the growth of republicanism in Ireland to the present day.
Simon Lemieux provides guidance on essays comparing the performance of the two adversaries in Victorian Britain.
Elaine Murphy looks at the two families who dominated the private provision of care for the insane in London in the early 19th century.
Michael Hunter tells how a mysterious phenomenon in the Highlands sparked a debate between scientific virtuosi and urban sceptics, in an episode that helps shed light on the vexed issue of ‘the decline of magic’.
David Johnson looks at the art of Sayers and Gillray and the role of pictorial satire in the destruction of a government.
