Peter Burley

A Farrago of Nonsense? The French Revolution in the Cinema

Peter Burley looks at how changing times and political climates are echoed in the 20th-century's view of the Revolution on film.

Published April 30 1989

Power and Faction in Louis XIV's France; The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance (1727-1731); & Louis XV's Navy, 1748-1762

Three books on French and Anglo-French history circa 1650-1750

Published May 31 1988

Philosophers and Pamphleteers

Peter Burley pores through a publication on the greatest 18th-century French thinkers.

Published August 31 1987

Society, Theory and the French Revolution

Peter Burley on a title about the philosophical discourse of the 1789 event.

Published July 31 1987

France 1789: A Bankrupt Regime

In the world today, a nation's financial collapse can threaten its political and social stability. It was the same in France in 1789, explains Peter Burley.

Published January 1 1984

Fighting For The Falklands in 1770

The Falkland Islands were at the centre of dispute in 1770 – but was the conflict really over those far-away islands, or was it the political future of the French Secretary of State, Choiseul, that was at stake?

Published May 31 1982

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.