History Today

Winning the War

A new booklet on the Ministry of Information and its wartime messages to the British public.

Faction at the Early Stuart Court

In the third of our series of articles on faction, Kevin Sharpe shows how, in the early 17th century, the monopoly of patronage by a court favourite distorted the pattern of politics in council, court and parliament.

The Soviet Union

Roger Pethybridge continues our series on the Post-War reconstruction of Europe.