The Victorians: Religion and Science If there was any single belief that characterized the Victorian...
Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Crinoline Cage The middle of the nineteenth century was the great age...
Brilliant-cut diamonds and other tricks of the light Simple mathematics revealed how to cut diamonds so as to...
Britain in the 20th Century: The Conservative Reaction, 1951-1965 The Conservatives recovered remarkably rapidly from the debacle of 1945...
War and Peace in Europe from Napoleon to the Kaiser: The Wars of German Unification, 1864-1871 In three short, sharp military conflicts, the Kingdom of Prussia...
Great Britain and the ‘Scramble for Africa’ The scramble for Africa in the 1880s saw the unclaimed...