Volume 52 Issue 6 June 2002

Nicholas Vincent reviews the career of the king whose long reign was overshadowed by the rivalries of his nobles, and who is primarily remembered for his piety and his building activity.

Sebastian Balfour recalls the use and effects of chemical warfare during, and after, the early decades of the twentieth century.

An overview of the life of Lord Acton of Aldenham, one of the founders of the English Historical Review and Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge.

Anthony Head describes the ways in which an atrocity has been commemorated, sixty years on.