Health
The British Trade Union Movement: From Tolpuddle to the General Strike
The history of British trade unionism — from the transportation of six Dorset farm labourers in 1834 to the nine-day…
Archive
Tag: British history
Latest reporting, analysis and explainers from National Herald UK.
Health
The British Trade Union Movement: From Tolpuddle to the General Strike
The history of British trade unionism — from the transportation of six Dorset farm labourers in 1834 to the nine-day…
Economy
The Chartist Movement: Britain’s First Mass Democratic Campaign
Between 1838 and 1858, the Chartists mounted the most significant popular challenge to the British establishment of the nineteenth century…
Education
The Dissolution of the Monasteries: How Henry VIII Dismantled Medieval England
Between 1536 and 1541 Henry VIII suppressed over 800 monasteries, priories and friaries, seizing their vast wealth and reshaping the…
Politics
The Duke of Wellington: Soldier, Politician and the Man Who Beat Napoleon
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was Britain's greatest military commander and a controversial political figure who opposed parliamentary reform
Politics
The Duke of Wellington: Soldier, Politician and the Man Who Beat Napoleon
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was Britain's greatest military commander and a controversial political figure who opposed parliamentary reform
Politics
The English Civil War: How Britain Executed a King and Invented Parliamentary Democracy
Between 1642 and 1651, England tore itself apart in a conflict that ended with the execution of Charles I and…
Politics
The English Civil War: How Britain Executed a King and Invented Parliamentary Democracy
Between 1642 and 1651, England tore itself apart in a conflict that ended with the execution of Charles I and…
Tech
The First World War: Britain, the Somme and the Generation That Was Lost
Between 1914 and 1918, Britain mobilised four million soldiers and suffered 750,000 dead — a national trauma whose impact on…
Finance
The Glorious Revolution of 1688: How Britain Established Constitutional Monarchy
When Parliament invited William of Orange to replace James II, it settled forever the question of who held ultimate power…
