Metternich
Alan Sked surveys the historiographical treatment of the notoriously long-winded Habsburg politician.
Alan Sked surveys the historiographical treatment of the notoriously long-winded Habsburg politician.
Paul Thompson looks at the newest and oldest form of history.
Daniel Bertaux presents an oral history of a traditional French industry.
Gladiatorial shows turned war into a game, preserved an atmosphere of violence in time of peace, and functioned as a political theatre which allowed confrontation between rulers and ruled.
Douglas Johnson asks what political or military intrigues lay behind the sudden recall to power, twenty-five years ago this month, of Charles de Gaulle, the wartime leader of the Free French.
The Hundred Years War was fought on French soil. What effects did this have on the lives of the rural French communities?
K.Z. Cieszkowski on the visual chronicler of scentific and industrial developments in the 18th century Midlands.
John Lowerson shows how, at the turn of the century, the English middle class seized with enthusiasm on the sport of golf, for it was leisurely, sociable - and affordable.
Jonathan Steinberg reveals his fondness for facts, the underpinnings of history.
In the second of our article on Governing the Capital, Ian Doolittle argues that it was during the great reforming Liberal ministry of Gladstone in 1880-85, that the City of London came nearest to being voted out of existence