Political

Brian Ward, author of a new book on the links between Rhythm and Blues music and the Civil Rights movement, tells of Martin Luther King’s little-known experiences as a recording artist.

A profile of the issues raised by A level questions on this history topic.

John Morrill re-examines a stormy period of religious history.

Bruce Waller looks at recent debate about modern Germany's greatest statesman.

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of a very suspicious death, on March 10th, 1948

Robert Frost reveals a neglected influence on his reforms.

As the second Elizabethan age closes in disillusionment, Penry Williams reconsiders whether the first deserved the same fate.

Christopher Ray queries the accepted pictures of a reluctant victim of forces beyond her control.  

John Horgan examines the attempts by the new Irish Free State government to disarm the IRA at the end of the civil war in 1923 and the way in which the issue of the IRA arms dumps rumbled on in Irish politics for the next ten years. 

January 30th, 1948