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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The Handing Back of Hong Kong: 1945 and 1997
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The Industrial Revolution in England
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The Irish historians' role and the place of history in Irish national life
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The Irish in Britain 1815-1914
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The League of Nations
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The Military Historian and the Popular Image of the Western Front, 1914-1918
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The National Insurance Act 1911: three perspectives, one policy
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The National Memorial to William Ewart Gladstone
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The New Imperialism
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The Northern Ireland Question 1886-1986
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The Northern Limit: Britain, Canada and Greenland, 1917-20
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The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870
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The Origins of the First World War
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The Origins of the Local Government Service
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The Origins of the Second Great War
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The Oxford Movement and Anglican Ritualism
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The Pennsylvanian Origins of British Abolitionism
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The People's Pensions
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The Pilgrimage of Grace: Reactions, Responses and Revisions
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The Poor Law in Nineteenth-century England and Wales
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