The Victorians: Religion and Science If there was any single belief that characterized the Victorian...
1665: London's Last Great Plague 350 years ago, London experienced a devastating outbreak of plague...
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...
Great Britain and the ‘Scramble for Africa’ The scramble for Africa in the 1880s saw the unclaimed...