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Anthony Sutcliffe preaches a new historical positivism
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The Kingship of James IV of Scotland - 'The Glory of All Princely Governing'?
Norman Macdougall explores the vicissitudes of James IV's reign; although regarded as a paragon amongst Scottish kings, his downfall owed much to his failings.
1926: Social Costs of the Mining Dispute
In 1926 the mining dispute led to the General Strike. Chris Wrigley writes how the memory of the hardship of those months has left a permanent legacy of bitterness in industrial relations in the coal industry.
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.
Reading History: Italian Unification
John A. Davis discusses a range of books tackling the Risorgimento.
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Roger Lockyer makes a plea for a greater emphasis on the study of the history of our culture.
Poverty in Elizabethan England
Understanding the reasons for the development of the poor-law, one of the most long-lasting of Elizabethan achievements.
Jacobitism
A.I. Macinnes on the support for the exiled Stewart dynasty after the Glorious Revolution of William III.
Russian Intelligentsia and the Bolshevik Revolution
In the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 there was a battle for the mind of the new Soviet man with artists and intellectuals engaged in the struggle between the old Tsarist and the new Soviet culture.