Women Murderers in Victorian Britain
Women as perpetrators of crime, rather than its victims, were figures of especial fascination and loathing in the Victorian popular press. Judith Knelman delves deeper.
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50 Years of the NHS
Charles Webster reflects on the achievements and shortcomings of fifty years of the National Health Service.
Opening of the London Olympics
Richard Cavendish remembers the opening of the ‘Austerity Olympics’ on 29 July 1948.
Failed Chartist Demonstration in London
Britain's working-class Chartist movement organised a mass meeting at Kennington Common on April 10th, 1848.
Appeasement at A Level
A profile of the issues raised by A level questions on this history topic.
The Press
Jeremy Black charts its growth in Victorian Britain.
Victorian Crime
Clive Emsley argues that nineteenth-century perceptions owed more to media-generated panic than to criminal realities.
Britain and the Origins of the First World War
Christopher Ray queries the accepted pictures of a reluctant victim of forces beyond her control.
Victorian Eco-Warriors
Antony Taylor reveals that Eco-Warriors were active more than a century ago.
The Lost Palace of Whitehall
On the tercentenary of the fire that destroyed it, Simon Thurley describes the significance of the royal Palace of Whitehall to the Tudor and Stuart monarchs who lived there.