Film in Context: The Third Man
Siegfried Beer looks at the links between The Third Man and British intelligence.
Britain
Britain in 1950
Roland Quinault looks at the state of the islands immediately following the Second World War.
A Revolution in London Housing
LCC housing architects and their work between 1893 and 1914, by Michael Crowder
Austen Chamberlain as Foreign Secretary
David Dutton analyses Austen Chamberlain's impact on British foreign policy, and European affairs, between the wars.
Mr Gladstone and Ireland
Michael Morrogh explains why Gladstone took up the cause of Irish home rule and why his policies failed so tragically.
Artists in the London Landscape
Charlotte Crow reviews the Museum of London exhibition tracing three centuries of artistic creativity in London.
Low and the Dictators
Timothy Benson assesses Hitler's irritated reaction to being lampooned by David Low of the Evening Standard.
Roman Carlisle
Unearthing the Cumbrian city's Roman past.
Death of Lord Armstrong
The brilliant inventor and engineer William George Armstrong died on December 27th, 1900, aged ninety.
Marrying for Love: The Experience of Edward IV and Henry VIII
Eric Ives looks at the cases of two English monarchs who broke with convention by selecting spouses for reasons of the heart, rather than political convenience.