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Sir Christopher Wren
The Society That Started It All: The Origins of Modern Science
A young Paraguayan boy receives a vaccination during the 2014 'Vaccination Week In The Americas.'
Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective
Highclere Castle, the main setting for Downton Abbey.
At the Movies: Downton Abbey
illustration of Prince George IV
Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?
portion of a movie poster for the movie Mary Queen of Scots, directed by Josie Rourke
At the Movies: Mary Queen of Scots
Indian bicycle troops are pictured at the Somme in 1916
The Amritsar Massacre
Banksy mural of worker chipping star off EU flag
Brexit: Dividing the United Kingdom
“The great financier, or British economy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765.” This British cartoon depicts the American colonies as a Native American woman, as juxtaposed to British officials and Britannia (far right), demonstrating the disconnect between the colonies and the metropole even though the colonists thought of themselves as full British subjects.
The Old Informing the New
Title page of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Queen Elizabeth I in Parliament
The Pandora’s Box of Religious Pluralism in the English Reformation
Under Attlee's direction, the Labour Party's position on foreign affairs in the 1930s was somewhat inconsistent. A believer in the "collective security" represented by the League of Nations, Attlee opposed rearmament even as he pushed for firmer measures against Nazi aggression.
A Sheep in Sheep’s Clothing
Queen Mary’s College, opened in 1914.
A Postcard from Madras: A City Born of the Colonial Encounter
Scene from the 11th century Bayeaux Tapestry depicting Norman cavalry attacking Anglo-Saxon soldiers.
The Norman Conquest of England, 1066
photo of Dan Snow
Best in History Online: Dan Snow's History Hit
Chartwell, the country estate of Winston Churchill
By Invitation Only
Statue of Sancho Panza in Madrid, Spain
Kindred Spirits: Shakespeare and Cervantes in Life and Death
Campaign poster for the Good Friday Agreement.
Treating the Symptoms: Northern Ireland’s Incomplete Peace
This painting by Jean-Baptiste de Saive (1562) portrays the environment of the kitchen as a place of making. As Wall argues, the kitchen was one of the main spaces for women to create and experiment.
Kitchen Wisdom
This stamp features the first stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn."
The “Shot Heard Round the World”: April 19, 1775 and the American Revolutionary War
The signing of the Magna Carta at Runnymede, as represented in a nineteenth-century engraving
The Magna Carta and Its Legacy
Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, 1814
The War We Refuse to Remember
painting - the War of 1812
The Legacy of the War of 1812 Is With Us Still
The Battle of Culloden by David Morier
9/12/2014: Top Ten Origins: Scotland and the United Kingdom
The Beatles arrive in 1964 to meet their new fans in America.
50 Years Ago: the Beatles, Rock, and Race in America