Political

Child-murderer, arch villain, failed monarch, ‘northern’. Have efforts to redeem Richard III succeeded or is he still one of history’s worst kings?

As the 19th century wore on, social reformers campaigned for charitable modernisation. Their target: England’s most useless foundations.

For citizens of Ancient Rome, the recurrence of brutal civil war was par for the course. For writers, it was an opportunity. 

Delusions of grandeur: a ‘psychobiography’ of Woodrow Wilson.

Germany in February 1933 as it unfolded day-by-day.

In January 1848, in the Sicilian city of Palermo, the streets began to fill with crowds. From here, revolutionary sparks flew to almost all of Europe’s cities.

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope is a Whiggish history of humanism from the Renaissance to the present.

Witch-hunting happened when and where states were weak. What does a newly discovered witch-hunt in 1582 reveal about France and its ‘enlightened’ officials? 

Making the case for historical literacy in government.

The ‘pragmatic and principled’ Harold Wilson.