Hitler’s History Films
David Welch looks at the dramatisation of Führerprinzip in the Nazi cinema, and how history films were used to propagate themes of anti-parliamentarianism and the concept of an individual leader of genius.
Political
Gustav Stresemann: Weimar’s Greatest Statesman?
Gustav Stresemann was at the heart of government until he died in 1929. Had he lived, could he have steered Germany safely through the Weimar era?
The Fabrication of Madame de Pompadour
Colin Jones discusses the art and artifice of the leading mistress of Louis XV.
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.
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.