Edwardian

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. 

Ian Garrett shows that well-informed counter-factual speculation can help us understand better the causes and consequences of what did happen.

Bartitsu – rather than Baritsu – was a hybrid martial art that flourished in fin de siècle London. As an amateur boxer, Arthur Conan Doyle was fascinated.

Frances Borzello seeks to explain the rise of women’s clubs in London before the First World War – and their equally swift demise.

On November 9th, 1908, Aldeburgh unanimously elected as their leader Mrs Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, who became Britain’s first female mayor.

Graham Goodlad surveys the career of one of the most controversial figures in late Victorian and Edwardian politics.

Juliet Gardiner assesses the worth of ‘television history’ and pinpoints the value of ‘reality history’.

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of Sherlock Holmes' most famous case, March 25th, 1902.