Political

Simon Lemieux provides guidance on essays comparing the performance of the two adversaries in Victorian Britain.

Stuart Leibiger looks at one of the most significant relationships behind the politics that produced the American Constitution.

David Johnson looks at the art of Sayers and Gillray and the role of pictorial satire in the destruction of a government.

Helen Rappaport tells the story of James Abbe, a little-known American photographer, whose images of the USSR in the 1930s record both the official and unofficial faces of the Stalinist regime.

Peter H. Wilson suggests that the aggressiveness of Wilhelmine Germany was not necessarily a direct consequence of the Prussian social system of the eighteenth century.

Siegfried Beer looks at the links between The Third Man and British intelligence.

David Dutton analyses Austen Chamberlain's impact on British foreign policy, and European affairs, between the wars.

Edgar Feuchtwanger assesses Bismarck's controversial career and legacy.

Michael Morrogh explains why Gladstone took up the cause of Irish home rule and why his policies failed so tragically.

Reggie Oliver looks at the links between some of the highest-placed women in Louis XIV's court and some notorious Parisian dealers in drugs, death and the dark arts