The 43 Group: The Forgotten Fight Against British Fascism
The 43 Group was a militant British anti-fascist organisation founded just as WW2 ended. Here the novelist Susie Gordon explains what they sought to achieve.
London
A collection of 19 Posts
Victorian Recruiting Sergeants in Westminster (1877)
By the mid-Victorian Age people were beginning to look at recruiting sergeants with fresh eyes
Building Tower Bridge in London (1892)
At the end of the nineteenth century the gaunt arms of an engineering wonder stretched across the River Thames
Meet me at the Cemetery Gates
Little spaces, profound stories. Roger Luckhurst tells us about London's hidden cemeteries
Victor Grayson and the Trauma of World War One with Stephen May
Stephen May engages with one of the great mysteries in British political history
Driving a Flock of Sheep through London (1926)
In the 1920s the last traces of old Dickensian London faded as the modern city grew at pace
Shakespeare’s Lost Years
Tinker? Tailor? Soldier? Spy? Howard Linskey looks back at the most mysterious phase of Shakespeare's life
The Fire at the Houses of Parliament
In 1834 the home of British politics was destroyed on a dramatic autumnal night
Samuel Johnson and the Perils of Hope
On the anniversary of Johnson's birth, Peter Moore considers a subject that deeply engaged the great writer.
The Most Famous Actress in the Georgian World
On her retirement the television producer Jo Willett set out to write a biography of Sarah Siddons
The Ghosts That Haunt the British Museum with Noah Angell
Writer Noah Angell on the ghosts of the British Museum
Walking the Streets of London in the 1660s
Joad R. Wren explains how he found inspiration and truth in Ralph Agas's map of London