Britain

The British bombed the Danish capital for a second time, on September 2nd, 1807.

How was rabies – a disease that still kills thousands worldwide every year – largely eradicated from Victorian Britain?

As Britain gets used to the ban on smoking in public spaces, Virginia Berridge looks at the way attitudes to public health have changed in the last fifty years, particularly among the medical profession.

Will the new super-casinos bring about the demise of the commercial bingo hall? Carolyn Downs traces the history of the game back to the eighteenth century and finds that then – as now – it had a strong attraction for women gamblers.

Mark Bryant describes the life and works of Abu Abraham, the Observer’s first ever political cartoonist.

David Mattingly says it’s time to rethink the current orthodoxy and question whether Roman rule was good for Britain.

Christopher Phipps introduces one of the capital’s great private institutions, and invites History Today readers to visit on June 28th.

Richard Cavendish recalls May 17th, 1257.

R.S. Taylor Stoermer takes a transatlantic perspective on the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707.

John Jackson exhumes the extraordinary case of a middle-aged woman from Derby convicted of plotting to murder the Prime Minister.