Political

Delusions of grandeur: a ‘psychobiography’ of Woodrow Wilson.

Germany in February 1933 as it unfolded day-by-day.

In January 1848, in the Sicilian city of Palermo, the streets began to fill with crowds. From here, revolutionary sparks flew to almost all of Europe’s cities.

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope is a Whiggish history of humanism from the Renaissance to the present.

Witch-hunting happened when and where states were weak. What does a newly discovered witch-hunt in 1582 reveal about France and its ‘enlightened’ officials? 

Making the case for historical literacy in government.

The ‘pragmatic and principled’ Harold Wilson.

The sacking of a young worker on 20 August 1976 escalated into a defining industrial conflict of the late 1970s.

What relevance do the Norman Conquest and the events of 1066 have to contemporary British politics? Everything and nothing.

Before the secret ballot, voting in Britain was a theatrical, violent and public affair. The Act that made democracy private turned 150 this year.