Political

David Starkey visits the Lincoln Center for a night at the opera.

In his actions and writings, Churchill made General Mackesy the scapegoat for the allied failure to recapture Norway in 1940. Was this a fair assessment? And why did Churchill pursue the cause with such bitterness? Mackesy's son explains.

It may have lacked the newsworthy drama of the earlier acts, but the Reform legislation of 1884-85 wrought 'great organic changes in the British constitution', writes Paul Adelman.

Recent events have provoked disquiet about the concept of diplomatic immunity: in the early eighteenth century, the British government was considerably less fastidious in its definition.

Kathleen Burk discusses the publishing of history books.

In the continuing series 'What is...history?' eight historians define political history - an area sometimes regarded as 'narrow', 'elitist' or simply 'dull', but now enjoying a recrudescence.

Roger A. Mason on the myths and power of Scotland's line of kings

Simon Keynes examines the variety of books on Anglo-Saxon rulers.

John A. Davis discusses a range of books tackling the Risorgimento.

John D. Hargreaves looks at the 1884 meeting of European nations and the impact on Africa.