History Review, Issue: 22

Matthew Christmas praises the best history of warfare he has found.  

Graham Darby and Matthew Christmas look at two useful, but flawed, additions to the Lancaster Pamphlets series.  

Graham Darby looks at why things happen, and argues that short-term causes are paramount.  

We eavesdrop on Ian Dawson as he interrogates the sources and wonders whether the first Tudor was really so mysterious.

David Welch attributes the Nazi leader's electoral success to much more than slick propaganda.

T.C.W. Blanning argues that royalty in France undermined itself through mismanagement, despotism and sleaze

Chris O’ Donnell’s codpiece in ‘Batman Forever’ echoes men’s historical urge to reveal their assets – Lois Banner looks at coded messages of gender, sexuality and...

The Madness of King George

Peter Riddick looks at the way oral history can add another perspective to our understanding of situations and events.

Richard Wilkinson wonders why historians have accepted the Cardinal's extravagant assessment of himself.

Martin Daunton argues that Labour's commitment to public ownership owed little to socialism and more to circumstances at the end of the First World War.