William Mulligan contends that the revolutionary event in 1870, as far as British foreign policy was concerned, was the collapse of French power, rather than the unification of Germany. By focusing on the latter and Anglo-German relations generally, historians have...
Neil Younger’s article on ‘Securing the monarchical republic: the remaking of the lord lieutenancies in 1585’, joint winner of the 2009 Neale Prize, has now been published online in Historical Research Early View.
Oliver Rafferty examines the ironic contours of the relationship between the Catholic Church and the British empire in the period 1800–1921. He reveals not only how the Vatican appreciated British government largesse but also that successive popes were quite prepared...
A new website has been launched which, according to press reports, details every single law made since 1267. The new website (legislation.gov.uk) brings together the legislative content currently held on the Office of Public Sector Information website and revised...
Female rulers have been the subject of much interest among historians in recent years, with medieval queens such as Margaret of Anjou and Eleanor of Provence having volumes devoted to them, and a veritable industry springing up of studies of Tudor queens, most notably...
A new website has been launched which, according to press reports, details every single law made since 1267. The new website (legislation.gov.uk) brings together the legislative content currently held on the Office of Public Sector Information website and revised...
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