David Dutton

Sir John Simon

David Dutton asks whether Simon was the 'Worst Foreign Secretary since Ethelred the Unready'.

Published September 14 2002

Austen Chamberlain as Foreign Secretary

David Dutton analyses Austen Chamberlain's impact on British foreign policy, and European affairs, between the wars.

Published February 16 2001

Life Beyond the Political Grave: Joseph Chamberlain, 1906-14

David Dutton explores the twilight years of the British statesman following the 1906 General Election.

Published April 30 1984

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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.