Although Canning resigned in 1809, writes Cedric Collyer, the fruits of his foreign policy, and the confirmation of the principles on which it rested, were already apparent by 1812 in the changing face and prospects of the war.
Alan Haynes describes a gallant mercantile endeavour in Tudor relations with Spain.
Today it is hardly possible to equate the Italian Renaissance with the modern world, as Burckhardt did a century ago. But, argues Denys Hay, his discerning study has helped to transform the Western attitude to the past, and its influence remains profound.
An introduction by Geoffrey Parker on the European Witch-craze of the 16th and 17th centuries.
John Terraine studies the effects of Napoleonic doctrine upon the leadership of mass armies in the Industrial Age.
Abu Raihan al-Biruni, an Islamic scholar from Central Asia, may have discovered the New World centuries before Columbus – without leaving his study.
Evelyn Howe takes the reader on a visit to private play-houses and their players during the later eighteenth century.
A photograph of 1867 which shows the construction of one of the glories of Victorian architecture.
Daniel Snowman asks whether historical biography can be considered a serious contribution to history and assesses the latest trends in the field.
The late 17th century saw the arrival of a new way of buying and selling books. Amy Bowles explores the impact of the book auction on those with a commercial and scholarly interest in the printed word.
