Political

In the 1920s and 30s the wireless transformed British politics - particularly at elections - as vote-seeking politicians had to adapt their style to the demands of a mass firesde audience.

Irene Coltman Brown focusses on a staunch 17th-century republican prepared to die for his beliefs.

The ability of Jinnah to unite a series of political expediencies with the popular appeal of Islam to demand a separate state for the Muslim people, has brought him the accolade 'the founder of Pakistan'. 

In the world today, a nation's financial collapse can threaten its political and social stability. It was the same in France in 1789, explains Peter Burley.

Gabriel Ronay traces the story of the 'forgotten' rightful heir to the throne of England – who could, perhaps, have saved Anglo-Saxon England from a Norman invasion in 1066.

Alan Heesom discusses 19th-century politics either side of the Irish Sea.

At the start of the reign of Charles II, government was the King's business and factions contested for the monarch's ear. The constitutional changes in later Stuart England added a new, parliamentary dimension to faction. But it did not disappear.

Providence seems to have smiled on Franco's path to power. But to what degree did the Spanish general manipulate that good fortune?

How the life of 16th-Century Reformer Martin Luther contributed to the future of Germany, even the rise of Fascism, as Thomas A. Brady, Jr. discusses...