The History of Britain Magazine
Welcome to the History of Britain! The home nations share a varied and shared history unlike anywhere else, so we thought it only right to create a section dedicated to our mutual heritage.
Churchill’s Secret Army
The Auxiliary Units were the brainchild of Sir Winston Churchill after the evacuation of Dunkirk. Highly trained and totally secret, their job was to provide resistance to the invading German army…
Admiral Lord Nelson
In 1758 a small sickly baby boy was born, the son of the Rector of Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk. No one could have envisaged that this child would, in his lifetime, become one of England’s greatest heroes…
The Bridgewater Canal
Arguably the first truly man made canal and the first canal in Britain which did not follow the path of an existing river or tributary…
The Manchester Ship Canal
The Manchester Ship Canal linking the ports of Liverpool and Manchester
Prehistoric Britain
A short history of prehistoric Britain including the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages.
The East India Company and its role in ruling India
Based on the site where the Lloyd’s building is today, East India House was the headquarters of the largest and most powerful company that the world has ever seen; The East India Company.
The Great Exhibition 1851
It is Queen Victoria’s husband Albert who is normally credited with being the driving force behind the Great Exhibition of 1851, but it appears that just as much praise for organising this remarkable event should also be bestowed upon one Henry Cole…
The Lancashire Cotton Famine
The story of how the American Civil War almost brought the British cotton industry to its knees…
