What is Political History?
In the continuing series 'What is...history?' eight historians define political history - an area sometimes regarded as 'narrow', 'elitist' or simply 'dull', but now enjoying a recrudescence.
History Today
Gordon of Khartoum: The Making of an Imperial Martyr
The Victorians glorified Gordon of Khartoum. But the reality of his role in the Anglo-Sudanese War was considerably less heroic.
'Scotching the Brut' - The Early History of Britain
Roger A. Mason on the myths and power of Scotland's line of kings
Reading History: Anglo-Saxon Kingship
Simon Keynes examines the variety of books on Anglo-Saxon rulers.
Forum
Roderick Floud puts the case for the Retention of Personal Records
What is Military History?
Eight historians discuss a subject which has strong claims to be regarded as the oldest form of history.
Refighting the Thirty Years’ War
Geoffrey Parker travels to Germany to revisit the sites of the 17th-century conflict that saw the decline of the Holy Roman Empire and Habsburgs.
Arms and the Victorian Policeman
The use of guns by the police is a continuing debate in British society, as it was in Victorian times.
Jacobinism Afloat - The Insurrection on the 'Lady Shore' in 1797
As the English convict ship 'Lady Shore' sailed towards Botany Bay her human cargo contained a number of Frenchmen politicised by eight years of Revolution in their homeland
Reading History: Italian Unification
John A. Davis discusses a range of books tackling the Risorgimento.