It received trading rights to the South Seas in return for financing the British government's debt. Shares were issued and unrealistic expectations cultivated. A monopoly of the slave trade was ...

Perhaps the greatest unsolved mystery in British royal history is that of the Princes in the Tower. In 1483, The Princes Edward (Edward V of England) and Richard (Duke of York) were just 12 and 9 ...

He described the defeat as the “worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history”. For the defeated Commonwealth soldiers who had battled to save it, 80,000 of them immediately ...

This course will bring you back down to earth. It offers a unique and scholarly history of the complexity of the British Empire through its origins, rise, fall and legacy. No subject is off limit. Its ...

A long and complex history of geological events in the British Isles not only laid the foundation for a wide range of economically valuable resources, such as metal ores and coal, but strongly ...

Previously I read history at Merton College, Oxford, and stayed there to study for my D.Phil. In 2002 I took up a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Contemporary British History ...