Faces in Court 1893-1918: Drawings of William Hartley from New Scotland Yard's Crime Museum William Hartley (1862-1937) was an early Fleet Street photographer whose...
1665: London's Last Great Plague 350 years ago, London experienced a devastating outbreak of plague...
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...