Britain goes global

The posthumous reputation of James VI and I

The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early ...

Where newspapers came from

The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the ...

Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth ...

A cut-crystal bed, with associated mirrors and throne, sparkled at auction earlier this month, but no glamour could beat the prize that was the Union Flag flown by HMS Spartiate at the Battle of Trafalgar