Britain & Ireland
What was it about industrialisation that led to the emergence of a woman’s movement in Victorian Britain? Why do we see so many people fighting for so many rights and liberties in this period and what are the origins of some of the issues we still campaign on today? This section includes our major series on Social and Political Change in the UK from 1800 to the present day. There are also articles and podcasts on the often violent relationship between England and Ireland during this period and England’s changing relationship with Scotland and Wales. Read more
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Dean Mahomet: Travel writer, curry entrepreneur and shampooer to the King
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Anorexia Nervosa in the nineteenth century
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Why the OBE survived the Empire
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My grandfather's recollections of the invasion of Normandy
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Britain's Olympic visionary
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The history of bigamy
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Wellington's Soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars
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History's big picture in three dimensions
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The death of Lord Londonderry
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The Pennsylvanian Origins of British Abolitionism
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Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show opens London's Earl Court in 1887
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Disraeli, Peel and the Corn Laws: the making of a conservative reputation
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A Victorian deserter's family story: surviving a clash of loyalties
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Landowners and their motives for change at the Suffolk village of Culford between 1793 and 1903
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Attitudes to Liberty and Enslavement: the career of James Irving, a Liverpool slave ship surgeon and captain
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The Slave trade and British Abolition, 1787-1807
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After the Uprising of 1956: Hungarian Students in Britain
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Child Health & School meals: Nottingham 1906-1945
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The great Liberal landslide: the 1906 General Election in perspective
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Twickenham as a Patriotic Town
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