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...account provided by her brother-in-law, penal reformer Thomas Fowell Buxton, which was published in 1818 and subsequently used by other campaigners and later hagiographers. Buxton describes the terrible scenes of poverty and debauchery that Elizabeth encountered; women, scantily dressed, begging at the gratings, playing at cards, swearing, drunk and violent. Overcome with...

...accounts of the Somme, they are sometimes curiously absent. Yet they, too, suffered some 465,000 casualties – more, in fact, than the British Army (some estimate these to be higher still, approximately 600,000, as much as the combined total losses for the Allies). But in the German national memory of the war, other battles are more prominent and have had more of an...

...accounting has to set such achievements (and others, such as the suppression of sati) against the sacrifice of Imperial subjects to power games. I'm having to grapple with these questions in concrete terms right now, because I'm involved in the production of a new OU history course, on the topic of 'Empire'. We're trying to present and summarise the main features of...