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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Cartoons and the historian
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Polychronicon 136: Interpreting the Beatles
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A sense of occasion
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'The end of all existence is debarred me': Disraeli's depression 1826-30
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Sir Francis Fletcher Vane, anti-militarist: The great boy scout schism of 1909
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What did you do in The Great War? A family mystery explored
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The snobbery of chronology: In defence of the generals on the Western Front
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The Northern Ireland Question 1886-1986
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Chartism
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Polychronicon 129: Reinterpreting Peterloo
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The People's Pensions
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The Englishness of George Orwell
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Hat on headstones
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Fascist behind barbed wire: political internment without trial in wartime Britain
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Child labour in eighteenth century London
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The Poor Law in Nineteenth-century England and Wales
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The Chapel and the Nation
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The Versailles Peace Settlement
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The Enlightenment
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Remember Peterloo!
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