Britain

The death of Cabinet government has been a near constant theme of British politics in the 20th century. But it came closer to reality under the premiership of Tony Blair, argues Archie Brown.

Asa Briggs has been associated with History Today from its beginning. In an interview to celebrate our 60th anniversary, he tells Paul Lay about his involvement with it, his new book on his days as a cryptographer and his passion for Blackpool.

In writing a young person’s history of Britain Patrick Dillon found himself wondering where myth ends and history begins.

Four hundred years after it was first published, the Authorised Version of the Bible remains hugely influential, especially in the US. Derek Wilson examines its origins and its legacy.

Stuart Clayton ask whether the mass media have undermined the status of leading authority figures in Britain since 1945.

Nicholas Dixon asks whether there was a radical transition between the two eras.

Rowena Hammal examines the fears and insecurities, as well as the bombast and jingoism, in British thinking.

Graham Goodlad reviews the career of A.J. Balfour, an unsuccessful Prime Minister and party leader but an important and long-serving figure on the British political scene. 

Ian Garrett looks at the experience of coalitions and minority governments in nineteenth and twentieth-century British politics.

Geoff Coyle revisits an article by Chris Wrigley, first published in History Today in 1984, examining the mining dispute of 1926,which developed into Britain’s first and, to date, only general strike.