History Review, Issue: 56

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Benjamin Disraeli – Conservative leader and Prime Minister

Mark Rathbone assesses the degree of success achieved by one of the great Victorian Prime Ministers.

Bookwatch

John Plowright has been reading a volume in the new-look Access to History series; Julius Ruiz has enjoyed a volume commemorating the beginning of one of the most...

Conflicts and Loyalties: the Parliaments of Elizabeth I

R. E. Foster surveys the changing interpretations and introduces the key facts.

Khrushchev’s ‘Secret Speech’

Fifty years after Khrushchev’s famous denunciation of Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, John Etty examines what was at stake....

Niccolo Machiavelli – the Cunning Critic of Political Reason

Vincent Barnett reveals that there is more to Machiavelli than his notorious reputation.

Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust

F.G. Stapleton seeks to understand why the Pontiff of 1939-58 has been called ‘Hitler’s Pope’.

Russia and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71

Mike Wells argues that Russian decisions in July 1870 were of major significance for the history of Europe.

The Man in the Golden Mask

Richard Wilkinson, Louis XIV’s new biographer, searches for the real Sun King.

Using ‘Google Earth’ in the History Classroom

Once again Russel Tarr demonstrates how ICT can enrich and enliven the work of historians.

Was the American Civil War the first Modern War?

Gervase Phillips points out the limitations in a common interpretation.