Britain

John Plowright reconsiders a lost leader and the battle he won to maintain public order.  

A cabinet of curiosities or a medium for enlightening the general public? Patricia Fara looks at how debate over democratising scientific knowledge crystalised in the development of the newly-formed British Museum.

Richard Cavendish charts the life and work of Edmund Burke, who died on July 9th, 1797.

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of May 15th, 1847.

Simon Thurley sniffs the air in William III's Privy Garden at Hampton Court.

Onward Christian Socialists? Mark Bevir takes a timely look at a little-known phenomenon that was part of turn-of-the-century radicalism in Britain.

Patrick O'Brian evaluates the costs and benefits of Hanoverian and Victorian government.

Andrew Roberts defends Britain's war hero against his detractors, in our Longman/History Today Awards Lecture.

Christopher Ray argues that Hitler's high-profile plan for invading Britain was a blind: his main intention was to fool Stalin into believing he was safe.