19th century

Archival discoveries including a 19th-century autobiography transform our understanding of Shadrack Byfield, an English veteran of the War of 1812 who...

New research shows that many middle-class Mancunians lived in the same buildings and streets as working-class residents including weavers and spinners...

Historian Dr Meg Foster shatters the myth that “Black Douglas” murdered a white woman and tells the story of an intelligent survivor