Political

In the second instalment of a two part article, Roger Eatwell chooses between rival definitions of a slippery word

Frank McDonough looks at recent thinking on the origins of the war of 1899-1902

Raphael Mokades - the winner of the 1996 Julia Wood Award - argues that military failure in the Boer War transformed political attitudes in Edwardian Britain.

Edward Coleman weighs up Modern Italy's Northern League against its medieval Lombard inspiration.

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.