Political

Elizabeth van Houts reconstructs memories of occupation (with echoes of the 1940s) from post-Norman conquest chronicles.

Edward Ranson on the house race that split and defined a fin-de-siecle US.

Dauvit Broun looks at the making of a nation, 1000-1300, which formed a crucial element in the shaping of medieval Britain.

In the first instalment of a two-part article, Roger Eatwell looks at rival definitions of a slippery word.

Why the 1815 Corn Laws were necessary, and why circumstances conspired to force the repeal of 1846.

John Hardman, a biographer of Louis XVI, argues that the king at the time of the French Revolution fails to live down to his abysmal reputation.

John Rohl reveals monarchical mentalities and structures in Imperial Germany.

Bernard Porter argues that the 'End of Empire' unravelled British domestic politics as well as her international outlook.

Philip Mansel looks at interchange and intrigue in the cross-currents of 18th-century culture between East and West.

What did ordinary people in Nazi-controlled Austria really think about their native-born Führer, Adolf Hitler? Tim Kirk opens a window on a unique record of public opinion – a Gestapo equivalent of 'Mass Observation' in 30s Britain.