At this years' Historical Association Annual conference we Podcast 4 of 3 of...

In the spring and early summer of 1940, the British government carried out a...

On 1 March 1771, thirteen year-old John Davies, a London charity school boy,...

The grave markers in churchyards and cemeteries are for the most part...

This article was commissioned by the Sheffield Branch of the Historical...

In the spring of 1643 William Lithgow, a Scot born in Lanark in 1582, who had...

The 1745 Rebellion has become part of the romantic heritage in both British and...

The National Portrait Gallery in London is home to many thousands of portraits,...

High school history teacher Brent Dyck is one of our Canadian readers. He has...

The BBC News at 10 on Saturday 5 July included an announcement that Manchester's campaign to have a memorial erected to the victims of the Peterloo Massacre...

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...

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

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

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...

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...