Kazan Falls to Ivan the Terrible
The walled and moated town of Kazan was stormed by Ivan the Terrible's army on October 2nd, 1552.
Political
Change & Continuity in 17th Century English Parliaments
David L. Smith provides an overview of parliamentary history during the 'century of revolutions'.
Corn, Catholics and the Constitution: The Tory Crisis of 1827-30
Graham Goodlad considers the reasons for the disintegration of the early nineteenth-century Tory Party, which had dominated British politics for more than four decades.
Mao Zedong: Liberator or Oppressor of China?
Michael Lynch introduces the controversial career of a gargantuan figure in Chinese and modern world history.
Why did the Bolsheviks Win the Russian Civil War?
Peter Anderson compares the tactics and resources of the two sides.
Sir John Simon
David Dutton asks whether Simon was the 'Worst Foreign Secretary since Ethelred the Unready'.
Police and Public Service
Simon Kitson highlights the conflicting demands made on the police in postwar France.
Arthur of Brittany Captured
Arthur of Brittany was captured on August 1st, 1202.
Hussein made King of Jordan
On August 11th, 1952, the Jordanian parliament declared that King Talal was suffering from schizophrenia and was unfit to rule and that Hussein was now King of Jordan.
The Secret State
Paul Addison reviews two new studies on the secret planning surrounding the Cold War by the British government.