Britain

The events leading up to Britain and France's declarations of war on Russia on successive days on 27 and 28 March 1854.

The clergyman and chemist Joseph Priestley died February 6th, 1804, aged seventy-one.

Peter R. Neumann shows the relevance of ‘The Troubles’ to allied policy in Iraq.

Joshua Shotton defends a much-maligned statesman.

Robert Pearce outlines the extraordinary career of trade union leader-turned-politician J.H. Thomas.

Retha Warnicke examines the tumultuous career of Mary, Queen of Scots, before her long incarceration by her cousin Elizabeth I of England.

Jerry Brookshire shows that the ‘special relationship’ in 1945-51 was in safe, and curiously similar, hands.

Anthony Cross describes the introduction of British games to Russia.

David Johnson describes the infamous Marriage Act of 1753, which made marriage a tightly-regulated institution governed by church and state.

John Slatter celebrates the far-ranging contributions of Russian political émigrés to British life in the half-century before 1917.