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...

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

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

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

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...

More people than ever are seeking to trace their family histories. People can...

‘Poor England has lost so many men'On 22 October 2007 an unlikely group...

‘It is often said on the other side of the water that none of the exhibitions which we send to England are purely and distinctively American', exhorted...

125 years after his death, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, still provides the political lode-star for generations of Conservatives. Lately, for the...