14 December 2008 is the 90th anniversary of the election of the first woman to...

The public man and his career Spencer Perceval's career as a public figure lasted from 1796 when he became a King's Counsel and MP for Northampton until his...

Though people are still sometimes prosecuted for repeatedly marrying immigrants to rescue them from the attentions of the Home Office, while forgetting to get...

Why is Henrietta Luxborough, who was born in 1699, of interest today? In the first place because of whom she was; in the second because of what happened to...

Forty-six years before the modern Olympics began, the small Shropshire market town of Much Wenlock was the seemingly unlikely setting for the establishment of...

16 year old Daisy Black of Newcastle-under-Lyme School in Staffordshire was the...

An anomaly of the British honours system is the name of the award most frequently given - the Order of the British Empire created in 1917. Each medal carries...

Eastwood is a busy, small town, about twelve miles west of Nottingham. It lies just within the county boundary with Derbyshire. Its name probably derived from...

New book about ordinary lives in WW2.

Was Richard II Mad? On 19th June Terry Jones, 'Python', historian,...

Wellington's Soldiers in the Napoleonic WarsThe war with France, which began in...

The River Derwent is a dominant feature of the Derbyshire  landscape from the...

Traditionally, the Middle Ages have been portrayed as the ‘Feudal Age',...

Ottoman society centred on the Sultan. He was lawgiver, religious official,...

More and more historians, from diverse political viewpoints, are now expressing...

The Council of Management presents its report and the audited financial statements for the year ended 30 September 2007 The report has been prepared in...

(Redondo Beach, CA, February 11, 2008) In 1914, the British invaded Mesopotamia...

Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, better known to his contemporaries and to history as Viscount Castlereagh, committed suicide on 12 August 1822, at...

East of Hull lies Holderness, a two hundred square mile portion of the former...

It can have escaped the attention of very few people in the United Kingdom that 2007 marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in British...