Volume 6 Issue 1 January 1956

“A game of bluff from start to finish,” said Robert Baden-Powell, British commander during the Second Boer War. Nicholas King describes the seven-months’ siege, that took place in present day South Africa.

Herbert Butterfield describes the origins of the Historical Association and its influence on the teaching of history in Britain.

Despite its failure, writes D.W. Brogan, many French regimes have gone down with less dignity than that of the restored Bourbons.