Political

The Battle for Art in the 1930s

David Elliott looks at how Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler used culture to their own ends and how the ramifications of this has continued to the present.

Futurism and Fascism

Italy's Futurists - led by Filippo Marinetti - exploded onto the European cultural scene during and after the Great War with all the garishness and fizz of some of their founder's anarchic recipes. But was the menu taken up by Mussolini and his Fascists? Richard Jensen investigates.

Henry VII: Out of the Shadows?

We eavesdrop on Ian Dawson as he interrogates the sources and wonders whether the first Tudor was really so mysterious.

Who Voted For Hitler?

David Welch attributes the Nazi leader's electoral success to much more than slick propaganda.

Richelieu

Richard Wilkinson wonders why historians have accepted the Cardinal's extravagant assessment of himself.

The Labour Party and Clause Four 1918-1995

Martin Daunton argues that Labour's commitment to public ownership owed little to socialism and more to circumstances at the end of the First World War.

The Nation in Arms: Germany and France 1789-1939

Omer Bartov asks how the armies of lords and kings became the forces of peoples and nations.

Louis XV and the Decline of the French Monarchy

T.C.W. Blanning argues that royalty in France undermined itself through mismanagement, despotism and sleaze.

Reagan's Rise

Gerard de Groot argues that exploitation of silent majority fears about 60s student protest is the key to understanding Ronald Reagan's rise to prominence in Californian politics.