Home from the Wars
Stephen Brumwell discusses attitudes towards Veterans in mid-Georgian Britain, and the provisions made for them.
History Today
The Origins of Women's Peace Campaigning
Helen Rappaport charts the early efforts of campaigning women to outlaw war.
Slavery and the British
James Walvin reviews current ideas about the vast network of slavery that shaped British and world history for more than two centuries.
Publication of the Hound of the Baskervilles
Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of Sherlock Holmes' most famous case, March 25th, 1902.
A Coup in Cuba
General Batista seized power on March 10th, 1952.
The Treaty of Amiens
The peace treaty that temporarily ended hostilities between France and Britain during the Revolutionary Wars was signed on 25 March 1802.
Addendum: Promises, Promises
Taylor Downing on the effects of the Great War on Middle Eastern history.
Arminius and the Arminians
Diarmaid MacCulloch traces the complicated route by which a modest Dutch academic with impeccable Calvinist credentials became a patron saint for anti-Calvinists both in the Netherlands and in England.
Cromwell's Soldier Admirals
During the Commonwealth years England's navy scored a series of notable victories against the Dutch and Spanish, but the heroes of the navy were army men, not sailors. Michael Baumber scrutinises the career of the greatest general-at-sea, Robert Blake, who put new heart into the Senior Service.
Stresemann and Weimar
Prophet of European unity or pre-Hitler nationalist bent on wiping out Germany's Versailles humiliation? Sixty years after his death, Jonathan Wright reassesses the career and motives of Germany's leading statesman of the 1920s.