This is the first of three lectures which looks at the period in British History from the end of The First War to the start of the...

May I recommend a newly published book by Jonathan Farley, late of The Royal Naval College, Greenwich. THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER Jonathan...

Both of these areas became subject to progressive legislation during the Victorian era. The Education Act of 1870 revolutionised primary...

Books on Riots, Bawdiness, & Polite Society The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain Ian Mortimer Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's...

The Crimean War Orlando Figes The Crimean War Hugh Small The Crimean War Paul Kerr The Crimean War John Sweetman The...

THE CRIMEAN WAR 'The war', said Frederick Engels,' was a colossal comedy of errors'. And so it was, but it nevertheless cost over 600...

The eighteenth century saw the rise of a new professional and entrepreneurial middle class. Included amongst which were many women who...

Empire Denis Judd Empire Jeremy Paxman The Decline and Fall of The British Empire Piers Brendon Colonialism Nigel...

No single word, save perhaps for 'Slavery', creates such a storm in British historical circles, and across the wider community, than the...

The Blackest Streets Sarah Wise History of a London Slum. Local History at its best Sybil Benjamin Disraeli The novel that...

This third in talks about the Victorian Age, delves into an underside of Victorian Life. The underside of the urban factory working...

1848 Christopher Clark A new look at this seminal year in European history by the excellent Christopher Clark The Windsors at...

Robert Peel Douglas Hurd Sir Robert Peel Norman Gash Parliament Vol 2 Chris Bryant The Conservative Party Robert...

Robert Peel Why in a short course devote a whole session to Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel? If his name is remembered today by the...

A Short General Booklist Short History of The Victorian Era G.Kerr High Minds S.Heffer The Victorians J.Paxman...

This is an introduction to my first lecture on Victorian Britain for Lockdown on 5th June. Queen Victoria You can't escape Victoria...

For my new Lockdown course beginning on Monday 5th June Victorian Britain 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times', wrote...

REUNIFICATION & BEYOND When re-unification came, it came quickly. The East German Communist regime crumbled as the whole of Eastern...

Beyond the Wall Katja Hoyer East Germany Charles Rivers Editors East Germany Hourly History Growing up in East...

It seems, with the benefit of hindsight, very strange to western eyes that in the Eastern half of Germany at the end of The Second World...