Britain

Winston Churchill

The 'Churchill Question' is a complex one: a study in failure as well as success.

The Great Victorian Convent Case

With the increase in Irish immigration into Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, concern arose about the resurgence of Catholicism. Yet not all women in convents were helplessly detained there, as explains Walter L. Arnstein.

Mid-Victorianism

G.M. Young portrays the golden political calm and sense of cultural comfort at play in mid-Victorian England.