Recently published

Damian O’Connor examines the motives of the man who started the conflict.

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

John Matusiak referees the debate about the influence of Henry VIII’s son.

Peter Anderson identifies the groups, the grievances and the events which started the war.

Andrew Cook examines the latest evidence from MI5 on the miners’ strike and the fall of the Heath government, March 1974.

Denis Judd takes stock of current arguments as to the effect of British rule in India and other countries of the Empire.

Simon Sebag Montefiore considers the issues involved in writing the biography of one of history’s monsters.

Caroline Sharples discusses the bitter-sweet experiences of the Jewish children permitted to travel to England to escape the Nazi regime, leaving their families behind them.

Richard Barber explores the origin of the Holy Grail story, its significance in its own time and its wider impact in subsequent centuries.

Ian Mortimer takes issue with those who put limits on historians’ questionings of the past.