Political
Henry VII and Charles the Bold - Brothers Under the Skin?
Steven Gunn explores the surprising similarities between the impetuous Valois duke and the cautious Tudor pragmatist.
The Causes of the Thirty Years War
Graham Darby spins a thread to guide you through the labyrinth of The Causes of the Thirty Years War.
Italy: A Geographical Expression
Harry Hearder argues that Metternich got it wrong - Italy's sense of unity is the oldest and most deeply rooted in Europe.
Defence or Aggression?
Jeremy Black passes judgement on British foreign policy 1688-1815.
Canning and the Pittite Tradition
John Derry exposes popular myths about a misunderstood statesman.
Votes for Women
Since the 1860s Women's History has sought to recapture the experiences of a previously submerged half of the population. Sarah Newman looks to the feminist struggle to overcome prejudice and win the most basic right of all.
Amasis: The Pharaoh With No Illusions
John Ray on a ruler who mixed laddishness with mysticism in the last days of independent Egypt.
Fenimore Cooper's America
Alan Taylor examines how the social concerns and ambitions of the new republic and those of the author of Last of the Mohicans intertwined - and how they gave him the canvas to become the United States' first great novelist.
'Skittles' and the Marquis - A Victorian Love Affair
A budding front-bench politician and his mistress ... not a tract for our times but an 1860s relationship recovered and reconstructed from love letters by the politician's biographer, Patrick Jackson.