Political

To understand why Americans believe their nation to be innocent of imperialism we must go back to the Founding Fathers of the Republic, says Graham MacPhee.

To coincide with ‘Cold War Modern’, a major new exhibition at the V & A in London, its consultant curator, David Crowley of the Royal College of Art, looks back on the 1959 Kennedy-Khrushchev ‘Kitchen Debate’ and explores how modern design became an active part of that war.

F.G. Stapleton introduces the ‘weather vane ideology’.

Richard Wilkinson recreates the contest that marked, and marred, the British war effort in 1914-18.

Graham Goodlad reviews the controversial career of William Pitt the Elder, whose ascendancy coincided with Britain’s involvement in the Seven Years’ War.

John Spiller assesses James I’s impact on the Puritans and the Puritans’ impact on James I.

Mark Rathbone analyses the causes and consequences of sudden changes of policy in nineteenth-century British politics.

Jeremy Isaacs, the producer of The World at War and Cold War, reviews the changing nature of historical documentaries made for the small screen, and their reception by academics.

Richard Cavendish charts the events leading up to King Zog I's coronation on September 1st, 1928.

Asya Chorley describes the relationship between China, Britain and Tibet in the early twentieth century, and shares the unique experiences of the first European women to be invited to Lhasa by the XIII Dalai Lama.