Jonathan Strauss considers the scope and significance of the theory of the labour aristocracy and its application by Engels ...

It was twenty years after the worst of the Blitz that I first got to know Whitechapel and Stepney, Tower Hamlets’ ancient heartlands. It was 1963, the summer after the coldest winter for a century and ...

Who were the ten British prime ministers of Queen Victoria’s reign? What were the highlights of their careers, and what did ...

A 19th-century witch bottle containing teeth, fish hooks, and mystery liquid was found at the childhood home of Angeline ...

You don’t need to read the author’s acknowledgements to tell that her fiction is firmly anchored in historical fact, albeit ...

London’s literary landscape is littered with unforgotten words. Some real, some the stuff of legends. During a Bloomsbury pub ...

Sadiq Khan has been given new powers which could lead to pubs and clubs in central London being open for longer this summer ...

As the cost-of-living crisis mounts once more, resistance is rising, and now is the time to build the People’s Assembly demonstration on 7 June, reports Steph Pike The Labour Party that promised ...

This show follows a Scottish family from a humble farming life to an elite position in Victorian Glasgow society - and it could be the new Outlander ...

On the eve of a new exhibition, the artist talks to Geordie Greig about his alter ego ‘Claire’, surviving emotional abuse and why when he looks at exquisite Sèvres china, he thinks ‘Eastbourne charity ...

Two books I read in my teens made me want to be a writer. One, Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch, appeared when I was in the third ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been accused of balancing her books on the backs of the poor in her recent budget, by cutting ...