British History

Britain’s sewage problem requires a Victorian solution

Leanda de Lisle triumphs where her subject could not

Would getting Britons to close their storybook really solve Britain’s problems?

Strange echoes at Bosworth Field

Why we should listen to the Tories who opposed 1776

The siege of Basing House encompasses all of England in microcosm

British policy in the Ottoman Empire was not driven by Orientalism, but self-interest and self-deception

From the suppression of colonial documents, Caroline Elkins spins a tale of violence

Our Falklands correspondent muses on the importance of the war to the late journalist

When rebellion stalked the streets of London