Doug works on the history and theory of the novel in English ... Pam co-directs or co-leads the Drinking Studies Network, an NCN-funded project on women and alcohol in 19th-century British and Polish ...

The mid-19th century was a turbulent period in Welsh history. Popular risings and riots ... from the national schools of the Anglicans to the British schools of the nonconformists, but attendance ...

About 'A Very British History' A Very British History is a collection of stories of 20th Century Britain through the eyes of minority communities across Britain. Discover the stories of the ...

Skip to content viewer section. For Marx the British working class was both a practical inspiration and a challenge. Britain's was the world's first majority proletariat and in the 1840s was also the ...

Monty Don explores the stories behind four of the country's most important gardens, unpacking their fascinating secrets to reveal how the British garden has evolved over the past 400 years. Watch all ...

British working families at the start of the 19th century were enduring economic upheaval and widespread unemployment. A seemingly endless war against Napoleon’s France had brought “the hard ...