Richard Wilkinson

Richard Wilkinson exposes prejudice and myth in assessing the career of a key figure in modern French history.

Richard Wilkinson is impressed by a new study of the women’s movement.

Richard Wilkinson explains what went wrong in Anglo-German relations before the First World War.

On the 60th anniversary of the fall of Singapore, arguably the nadir of Anglo-Australian relations, Richard Wilkinson explores the strange relationship between the two countries in the last century.

Richard Wilkinson considers the character and standing of the much-despised Nazi Foreign Minister.

Richard Wilkinson argues that, for all his faults, a case can be made for the aloof aristocrat at the Foreign Office in 1900-1905.

Many have dismissed the last Stuart monarch as a nonentity or a figure of fun. Yet according to Richard Wilkinson she does not deserve her tarnished reputation.

Richard Wilkinson challenges the consensus of contempt for the Nazis' leading diplomat.

Richard Wilkinson weighs up history's verdict on Chamberlain's Secretary of State for War, and asks whether it was Establishment anti-Semitism or professional failings in the light of Dunkirk that led to the minister's downfall in 1940.

Richard Wilkinson argues that Cromwell had what it took to rule Britain but failed to achieve his own idealistic programme.