Felice Orsini: Striking a Blow for Freedom?
The consequences of Felice Orsini’s assassination attempt on Napoleon III were momentous and paradoxical.
The consequences of Felice Orsini’s assassination attempt on Napoleon III were momentous and paradoxical.
Did the British government suppress evidence that might have prevented Wallis Simpson’s divorce? Edward VIII’s marriage prompted changes to the law, but did it also break it?
Ralph V. Turner considers how and why Magna Carta became a beacon of liberty in Britain and, increasingly, in the United States.
Some British and Irish-born Muscovites waited out Napoleon’s invasion of 1812, surviving both the French army and the five-day inferno.
The image of Cardinal Richelieu, carefully crafted during his lifetime, soon became that of a demonic schemer. How?
The French tragedy at sea, immortalised in Géricault’s masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa, was put to use in the service of British patriotism.
Devra Davis looks at the London Smog disaster of 1952-53.
Graham Goodlad considers the reasons for the disintegration of the early nineteenth-century Tory Party, which had dominated British politics for more than four decades.
David Dutton asks whether Simon was the 'Worst Foreign Secretary since Ethelred the Unready'.