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HE was the Prime Minister, a citizen of Southampton and the founder of a local newspaper.

Indians have historically never had the concept of a fixed weekly day off. It was the British who brought with them the idea of a mandatory Sunday holiday to our nation

Has the public schooling model outlived its usefulness? By Lindelani Mnisi Global economies and the unprecedented democratisation of information have changed the world. Given that the main purpose of school was to teach children the necessities to live and to work, is there no easier, or more effective, way to achieve that same goal two centuries later? By Paballo Chauke The fight for equality is valid but the burning down of our universities is not the revolution or decolonisation any of us should want By Lindelani Mnisi on 6 May 2021 We humans are a species that thrives on intellectual abil...

The novelist, poet and women's rights campaigner Caroline Norton (1808-77) Credit: Bettmann Combining high society campery and historical scholarship in ways rivalling Nancy Mitford, Antonia Fraser, 88, is the great chronicler of melodramatic queens and fearsome princes, from Boadicea to Louis XIV, even Harold Pinter. She is peerless at pageantry, and no slouch when it comes to technical footnotes – there are plenty in her new book, The Case of the Married Woman, about the Factory Act (1833), the topography of late-18th-century Mayfair, the décor of the House of Lords, the use of hair-dye ...

Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in ‘Worktown Studies’ at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history If you were a boy or girl growing up in Bolton in 1900, there’d be a strong chance that from the age of 12 you’d go to work as a ‘half-timer’ in the mills. The other half of the day would be spent at school. The system came into force in the 1830s, as a progressive measure to limit the employment of children as young as five or six. Child labour was particularly prevalent in the boo...