1952

George Charles Henry Victor Paget, the 7th Marquis of Anglesey, shares the stories behind the trip that his ancestor, the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, paid to the...

Thomas Balston profiles John Boydell, Lord Mayor of London in 1790, who created the first great printselling business in Britain, and could count Reynolds, Romney...

Arthur Waley on the pioneering French explorer and early scholar of Indian culture.

Index of all the articles published in Volume: 2

The mountain country of Kentucky, until very recent years, has been the scene of fierce family feuds, as A.L. Lloyd records here.

Laurence Whistler charts the history of the magnificent seat of the Churchills.

Duff Cooper examines the consistencies and differences between two centuries’ worth of Prime Ministers and asks, 'Has there been a truly great statesman among them...

A.P. Ryan introduces the life and career of The Earl of Balfour: Conservative Prime Minister, 1902-5; Foreign Secretary, 1916-19; President of the Council 1919-22...

Four times Prime Minister, Gladstone owes his great reputation, A.F. Thompson argues, less to his achievements in office than to his character and personality....

J.H. Plumb profiles, perhaps, the finest orator to hold the office of British Prime Minister.

An acceptable minister in peace-time, Lord North’s misfortune was to hold office at the time of the American Revolution and War, as Eric Robson here shows.

Despite a lack of style or personality, W.N. Medlicott argues, Neville Chamberlain overcame his unique capacity for being misunderstood to achieve a record of...

Roger Fulford introduces the life and career of "perhaps the dimmest" British Prime Minister.

D.C. Somervell profiles the predominant figure in British politics during the interwar years.

Than the Younger Pitt, there is no lonelier, yet more commanding, figure among British Prime Ministers. By R.J. White.

D.H. Pennington introduces the picturesque Cotswold town.

J.D. Hargreaves appraised Swindon, “a city very much itself”, with a view of its idiosyncrasies, architecture and people.

Thomas W. Copeland here re-examines one of the most perplexing mysteries: that of Burke's connection with the famous “Single-Speech” Hamilton.

Christopher Lloyd documents some lesser known companions on the great voyager's journies.

L.E. Harris shows how, by draining the Fens, Charles I hoped to replenish his Exchequer; but that the Dutch engineers he employed began a work that still continues...

No monument of Christian architecture is more celebrated than the Cathedral of Chartres. Peter Quennell here traces both the origins of the great church and the...

Stella Mary Pearce uses the example of the Renaissance to reflect on the links between interesting times and their fashions.

C.E. Stevens explains how, two thousand years ago, by crossing the Rubicon, Julius Caesar challenged the power of the Roman Senate, and opened the way for the...

George Pendle retraces attempts by the British to seize control of Spanish colonies around the La Plata Basin, now part of Argentina and Uruguay.

Emile de Groot on the often fractious but ever-intimate relationship between European powers and Egypt.

The diffusion of wild flowers, thousands of miles from their native places, is a “vegetable record” Geoffrey Grigson suggests, of human migration and colonization...

An acute commentator on the French Revolution and on the development of the United States, Tocqueville foresaw a century ago many of the political and social...

Noel Annan examines the achievement of a great Victorian prophet.

A Liberal, a Catholic and a great Historian who yet never composed a great work of history—these are some of the aspects in which Roland Hill considers Lord Acton'...

W.F. Knapp reappraises a great historian of nineteenth century France.

A great historian of an age he disliked, Harold Mattingly shows how Tacitus has given posterity an incomparable picture of the early Roman Empire.

James Joll introduces the career of an extraordinary German historian and patriot.

Ann Dewar looks back at the Parliamentary debate over the introduction of Daylight Saving Hours, tabled in 1916 by Sir Henry Norman.

L.B. Namier investigates the “ever-recurring divergence between fixed ideas and a changing reality”.

J.D. Hargreaves on the turn-of-the-century visit of Russia's Nicholas II to France and its wider diplomatic ramifications.

Max Thompson profiles the oddest and most original of 17th century political thinkers.

As prophet and economist, Marx is a familiar figure. But what, asks Lindley Fraser, was his real contribution to the writing of history?

Robin Fedden pays a historical visit to the monumental Frankish fortress, symbol of Christian dominance in the Holy Land for over a century.

Da Vinci's scientific observations proved inseperable from his intentions as a painter, Kenneth Clark writes. But as a disciple of experience ahead of his time,...

Charles Seltman shows how Egyptian memories of Crete and its inhabitants may have given rise to the Platonic legend of the lost island of Atlantis.

Charles Seltman

D.W. Brogan

A study of diplomacy in transition by Nicholas Henderson

Elizabeth Wiskemann writes that Bentinck’s achievements as British Minister in Sicily, and inspirer of Italian resistance to Napoleon in the years 1811-1814,...

The Monds were significant figures not only as the architects of a great modern industry but as representatives of a phase of industrial development that nowadays...

George Pendle finds that the authoress of Little Arthur's History of England was also an inquisitive and adventurous traveller.

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, accounts for the last hours in active British politics for the 'Grand Old Man'.

Claud Cockborn explains how British bloodstock has its origins in a small group of Arab horses first imported in the seventeenth century.

Soldiers of fortune yet passionate lovers of art—the Gonzagas were a typical product of Renaissance Italy. By F.M. Godfrey.

F.M. Godfrey sifts through diverse depictions of Italy's Renaissance family.

Seton Lloyd describes how modern research into the early Christian history of what is now Turkey has promoted an Apocryphal story from myth to reality.

For sixteen years a Congressman and Senator, John Randolph was the most gifted conservative spokesman of the American South. Russell Kirk charts his singular...

L.F. Marks introduces Savonarola, dominant within the turbulence of Florentine politics of the 1490’s.

Eric Robson looks at the constitutional background - and legacies - of the American Revolution.

J.D. Hargreaves reviews the delicate truce that existed between Britain and Japan in the early years of the twentieth century.

J.J. Bell describes a powerful force of raiders on the early modern Scottish Borders.

N.P. Macdonald explains how modern Brazil owes its extensive frontiers, and the discovery of many of its natural riches, to the journeys far inland, in the...

In legend, Marathon is one of the decisive battles of the world; in fact, Stuart E.P. Atherley suggests, it marked the repulse of a comparatively small “...

Hugh Latimer unearths the role of the rubber plant in the story of empire and Malayan nation-building.

Roderick Cameron explanis how, during the 50 years that followed Governor Phillip’s landing at Botany Bay in 1788, convicts and free settlers turned the...

John Clive records how, during the opening years of the 19th century, Edinburgh added to its European reputation by producing one of the most famous critical...

James Kinross tells the story of the French Foreign Legion, a force famous for fighting in Africa, Russia, Mexico, Indo-China and France itself, as well as across...

In 1952, the Society of Friends celebrated its tercentenary. One of the Quakers' greatest achievements was the founding of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1681...

R.V. Sampson charts the philosophical battles that the philosophes fought to publish their Enlightenment masterwork of human knowledge.

A detailed account of the pageantry, expense and spectacle of the First Duke of Wellington's ...

S.M. Toyne investigates how, from earliest times, the migration of the herring has exercised an important influence on the history of the peoples living around the...

Quentin Bell delves into the disputed genealogy of Monaco's premier family.

J.H. Plumb documents the repeated attempts by British explorers and abolitionists to open West Africa for the Empire.

Robert Graves, working from Greek and Latin sources, and Joshua Podro, working from Hebrew, Aramaic and Syriac sources, completed a detailed restoration of the...

Victor Allan recounts the tale of a debonair and imperious nineteenth century fraud.

Nearly 35 centuries ago the first Empress in the history of the world proclaimed herself Pharaoh; Jon Manchip White records how Queen Hatshepsut then went on to...

Hugh Trevor-Roper recounts how the “Cromwellian Exiles” returned from abroad to restore the English Church's episcopal structure.

J.H. Plumb shows how, between 1857 and 1888, after much controversy, the mystery of the Nile’s source was finally solved by the successive discoveries of Speke,...

Naomi Mitchinson on the complex linguistic legacies of the travelling people.

Gerald Cobb explores secrets of the capital's ecclesiastical architecture.

The journeys of Gospel books from 11th century Europe, M.A. Braude writes, illustrates their historical significance.

Only a staff composed of men of military genius, and backed by a decisive and imaginative government at Westminster, could have secured a victory in the American...

Raymond Dawson reflects on 2,000 years of historical composition in China, beginning with Ssu-ma Ch’ien.

Not problems of the Squire’s pedigree, or of titles to land, but the origins and growth of town and village communities, W.G. Hoskins argues, should be the...

Adrian Brunel profiles the influential revolutionary pamphleteer and political philosopher.

Maurice Craig visits the Irish capital.

Chinese Governments are notoriously difficult in their relations with Europe. G.H.L. LeMay gives a chastening account of two early British attempts to get into...

H.G. Nicholas reconsiders the influence of this famous book on American opinion in the years preceding the Civil war, and on its world-wide public outside the...