Edwardian

Rowena Hammal examines the fears and insecurities, as well as the bombast and jingoism, in British thinking.

Graham Goodlad reviews the career of A.J. Balfour, an unsuccessful Prime Minister and party leader but an important and long-serving figure on the British political scene. 

Ian Garrett shows that well-informed counter-factual speculation can help us understand better the causes and consequences of what did happen.

On the centenary of her election as Britain’s first female mayor, Andrew Mackay looks at the life of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson.

Graham Goodlad surveys the career of one of the most controversial figures in late Victorian and Edwardian politics.

John Slatter celebrates the far-ranging contributions of Russian political émigrés to British life in the half-century before 1917.

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of Sherlock Holmes' most famous case, March 25th, 1902.

Eric Ives looks at the cases of two English monarchs who broke with convention by selecting spouses for reasons of the heart, rather than political convenience.

Paula Bartley takes issue with those historians who depict the suffragettes of the Pankhursts' Women's Social and Political Union as elitists concerned only with upper- and middle-class women.

Edward Pearce compares the careers of two giants of Fleet Street, A.G. Gardiner and J.L. Garvin.

Andy Croll on how publishing anti-social behaviour is a trick we have copied from the Victorians.

Raphael Mokades - the winner of the 1996 Julia Wood Award - argues that military failure in the Boer War transformed political attitudes in Edwardian Britain.