Political

The Lurch Into War

In May of 1588, Spain's great Armada set sail, bent on the invasion and conquest of Elizabethan England. Simon Adams re-examines the strategic considerations that underpinned the actions of both England and Spain before and after the Armada.

Chasing a Chameleon: Trebitsch Lincoln

Missionary, failed MP, counter-revolutionary, Buddhist abbot – Bernard Wasserstein tracks an extraordinary character through his secret lives across the ideological and international battleground of the early twentieth century.

Reassessing Peterloo

Peaceful protest or planned provocation? Philip Lawson re-examines 19th-century England's most famous law-and-order massacre with the aid of a key eyewitness account.

Whatever Happened to the English Reformation?

'Revisionism' has now become a historian's catch-phrase. Long-cherished interpretations of upheavals in British and European history have been re-examined. In this light, Glyn Redworth examines revisionist interpretations of the English Reformation.