The development of English urbanisation

Remembering a previous prime ministerial humiliation

The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece

Fans of the 1990s aren’t nostalgic reactionaries. They celebrate an era of optimism, peace, prosperity and great popular culture

The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot

The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument

We need trustees who actually believe in our museums

The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly

At least in its current, extreme interpretation, the Williams Thesis is almost certainly false

Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part