Political

Ribbentrop

Richard Wilkinson challenges the consensus of contempt for the Nazis' leading diplomat.

The Versailles Legacy

Derek Aldcroft argues that the statesmen of 1919 failed to act in the interests of Europe as a whole.

Palmerston

Murial Chamberlain argues that current conceptions of Britain's power in the Victorian era owe more to his media management than to his foreign policy.

Henry VIII and his Church

Richard Rex argues that the main inspiration for the king's pick-and-mix religion was neither Protestant nor Catholic but Hebraic.

Brazil's Guerrilla Trap

What led middle-class students to join the urban guerrilla movement against the military regime in Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s? Alzira Alves de Abreu reports on the evidence from interviews with those who survived.

A Fatal Guarantee: Poland, 1939

Despite Britain’s commitment to appeasement, the 1939 Agreement of Mutual Assistance with Poland led London into the Second World War. What changed?

Partition - The Human Cost

Mushirul Hasan looks at the reflection of the trauma and tragedy of partition through literature and personal histories.