Lord Robert Cecil: A Nineteenth-Century Upbringing
The gifted third son of the last Victorian Prime Minister was described as having ‘one foot in the Middle Ages and the other in the League of Nations’, as his descendant, Hugh Cecil, finds out.
The gifted third son of the last Victorian Prime Minister was described as having ‘one foot in the Middle Ages and the other in the League of Nations’, as his descendant, Hugh Cecil, finds out.
Guy Atkins explains what made the postcard such an extraordinary and successful phenomenon of the early 20th century and draws parallels with today’s social media.
The motives behind Emily Wilding Davison’s fateful actions at the Epsom Derby are still debated – and so is their impact on the Suffragette movement.
Long excluded from public business, King Edward showed, when he came to the throne, a remarkable grasp of foreign affairs. He was, as A.P. Ryan says, “a good European and a lover of peace.”
The crisis of 1909-11 involved two General Elections and a threat to flood the House of Lords with newly created Liberal peers. It ended, as Steven Watson notes here, in a triumph for the progenitors of the modern welfare state.
David Runciman compares the 2012 games with the London Olympics of 1908 and 1948 to see what they reveal about the changing relationship between politics and sport over the last century.
The abdication crisis of 1937 forced a royalist magazine to present a different face to the world, as Luci Gosling reports.
The failings of China's 1911 Revolution heralded decades of civil conflict, occupation and suffering for the Chinese people.
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.