Victorian

Clive Emsley argues that nineteenth-century perceptions owed more to media-generated panic than to criminal realities.

Antony Taylor reveals that Eco-Warriors were active more than a century ago.

Murial Chamberlain argues that current conceptions of Britain's power in the Victorian era owe more to his media management than to his foreign policy.

M. Naeem Qureshi on a remnant of empire which has moved beyond being a mere repository of the Raj.

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of May 15th, 1847.

Patrick O'Brian evaluates the costs and benefits of Hanoverian and Victorian government.

A budding front-bench politician and his mistress ... not a tract for our times but an 1860s relationship recovered and reconstructed from love letters by the politician's biographer, Patrick Jackson.

He marketed himself as a man of principle - a public image of which David Eastwood exposes the inaccuracy.

David Nash considers a cause celebre that tested tensions between pious tradition and a 'progressive' age.