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Douglas James explains why so many in the Christian West answered Urban II’s call to arms following the Council of Clermont in 1095.

Phil Chapple examines a titanic and controversial figure in modern Irish history.

Robin Evans assesses the contribution of the Welsh to the troubles of 1642-49.

Vincent Barnett contrasts Marxist idealism with the changing economic reality in the USSR.

R.E. Foster shows that we should know more of Perceval than the manner of his untimely death.

Judith Richards pinpoints the debts of Elizabeth I to her older half-sister.

Mark Rathbone considers why American trade unionism was so violent for much of 1865-1980 but so much more peaceful by the mid-twentieth century.

John Foxe’s graphic and angry work depicting the persecutions inflicted by the Roman Catholic church, was partly a response to the rising tide of intolerance across Europe in the mid-sixteenth century, but more specifically to the recent persecution of Protestants in England. David Loades describes the impact of one of the most significant books of its time.

The founder of Mormonism was born on December 23rd, 1805.

The bride was fifteen and the groom twenty-two, when they married on December 1st, 1655.