Looking at History

In the latter part of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century, Britain underwent what historians have called an ‘indust...

Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston, became the Whig Foreign Secretary in late 1830. Born in 1784, Palmerston ­entered Parliament in 1807. I...

George Canning had already held the post between 1807 and 1809. Only his unwillingness to serve with Castlereagh prevented his reappointmen...

    There are occasions when doing research that you come across something that you’ve always accepted and then find out you’ve been...

Having completed eleven volumes in his series of books on Birmingham, Stephen Roberts has now broadened his horizons into Lincolnshire.  I ...

After the defeat of France   in 1814 and 1815, Britain played a central role in redrawing the map of Europe at the Congress of Vienna .   ...