Political

Stephen Young puts the career of the 40th American President into historical perspective.

T.A. Jenkins reviews the life and legacy of Benjamin Disraeli, statesman, novelist and man-about-town, on the bicentenary of his birth.

Nicholas Vincent celebrates the founder of the Plantagenet dynasty.

Martin D. Brown tells the little-known story of how British and American soldiers disappeared in Slovakia’s Tatra Mountains during the remarkable episode of Slovakia’s National Uprising against its Nazi-supporting government during the Second World War.

Was Margaret Thatcher’s government close to defeat during the dark days of the miners’ strike of 1984-85?

On November 1st, 1954, an insurrection broke out in Algeria.

Glenn Richardson looks at almost nine hundred years of enmity, jealousy and mutual fascination, a hundred years after the Entente Cordiale.

When Teddy Roosevelt was re-elected, on November 8th, 1904, his words to his wife Edith were: 'My dear, I am no longer a political accident'.

Hugh Purcell tells the story of the man who inspired the Home Guard, taught it guerrilla warfare and paid a price for his political beliefs.

Sami Abouzahr untangles US policy towards France at the time of the Marshall Plan and the war in Indochina.