Political

Markus Bauer hopes that Romania’s membership of the European Union will enable it to face down the ghosts of its troubled twentieth-century past.

The man who founded the Tudor dynasty was born on January 28th, 1457.

Alexander I succeeded his father Malcolm Canmore, Macbeth's killer, as King of Scots on January 8th, 1107.

On January 5th, 1757, Robert-Francois Damiens attempted to assassinate Louis XV.

Cartoon historian Mark Bryant looks at the origins of the satirical magazine that has attracted a generation of outstanding cartoonists.

Debbi Codling looks at the beliefs and spiritual life of the man who usurped Richard II, an anointed king.

R. E. Foster surveys the changing interpretations and introduces the key facts.

Vincent Barnett reveals that there is more to Machiavelli than his notorious reputation.

Mark Rathbone assesses the degree of success achieved by one of the great Victorian Prime Ministers.

Martin Evans looks at the events of 1956 and the French war on terror, both at home and elsewhere, and how this was a turning point for French fortunes in the Algerian War of Independence.