1877: Recruiting Sergeants in Westminster
By the mid-Victorian Age people were beginning to look at recruiting sergeants with fresh eyes
Features
Here you can explore our archive of long form pieces, written by expert historians. In these features, they explain where they found their ideas, how they crafted their stories, what new discoveries they have made and arguments they have proposed.
1892: Tower Bridge, London
At the end of the nineteenth century the gaunt arms of an engineering wonder stretched across the River Thames
Reasons to Live – A Reconciliation with Mahmoud Darwish
Mai Serhan reflects on an encounter with the great Palestinian poet
What the Genoese Could Have Told the Dutch
Nicholas Walton finds similarities in the histories of the Genoese and the Dutch
Meet me at the Cemetery Gates
Little spaces, profound stories. Roger Luckhurst tells us about London's hidden cemeteries
Operation Stopgap: The First Shot in America’s War on Drugs
David Tuch pinpoints the beginning of the US war on narcoterrorism
Philip Augustus, Medieval England’s Greatest Enemy
Catherine Hanley considers the legacy of a brilliant leader
