Historical Periods

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

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

Though people are still sometimes prosecuted for repeatedly marrying immigrants to rescue them from the attentions of the Home Office, while forgetting to get...

‘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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

The public man and his career Spencer Perceval's career as a public figure...

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

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

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