Peel and the Tory Party Reconsidered
David Eastwood considers how the myth of the great statesman, who put country and Corn Law Reform before partisan advantage, is standing up in the light of modern scholarship.
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War and the English Gentry Under Edward III
Andrew Ayton analyses why Englishmen went off to fight in France in the Hundred Years' War, and elsewhere.
Marxism and Modern India
Dipesh Chakrabarty looks at the dialogue between nationalism and the inspiration of Marx in the formation of the world's largest democracy.
A Lost Common Wealth
John MacKenzie on the role and future of Commonwealth House
Ale Tales
Margaret Ballard considers the research of the Brewery History Society
In Search of Europe
Mia Rodriguez-Salgado goes in search of an idea that has puzzled people from Charlemagne to Adenauer.
Nineteenth Century Hidden Agendas
Dorothy Thompson looks at the impact of revisionism and triumphalism on tales of solidarity and struggle from the society of the Industrial Revolution.
Louis XII: Medieval King or Renaissance Monarch?
A ruler in transition - Howell Lloyd looks at the icons of power that masked the face of French kingship around 1500.
The Kaiservilla, Bad Ischl
The life and times of Austria's grand old man, the Emperor Franz Joseph, via the Kaiservilla.
Yanks-a-Million [and a half...]
Former editor of History Today Juliet Gardiner on the GIs 'over here'