Political

R.W. Davies describes how the legions and their auxiliaries were employed by Roman Governors to maintain law and order in their provinces.

‘The story of Charles XII,’ wrote Voltaire, ‘was entertaining; that of Peter instructive.’ A. Lentin describes a unique example of early modern Franco-Russian relations.

Colin Davies describes how, in the 6th century B.C., Miletus became the birthplace of Western science and philosophy.

S. G. F. Brandon describes how the Roman legate faced the problems of a Jewish Revolt.

H. Ross Williamson profiles the life and career of Cardinal Reginald Pole: cousin to Henry VIII; once Papal candidate; ‘a humanist of European reputation’; Pole spent much of his life abroad, in an artistic and philosophical circle that included Michelangelo.

H.T. Dickinson describes how, in his best-known work, Bolingbroke sought to produce a cure for present-day ills by rehearsing the virtues of an imaginary past.

G.W.S. Barrow tells the story of a twelfth-century London student in revolt.

William Seymour describes the first hundred years in the rise to power of the East India Company.

Stephen Usherwood shows how Rembrandt’s genius gives a vivid impression of 17th-century Holland.

John Fines introduces Thorpe, a follower of Wyclif for thirty years, who was tried for heresy in 1407.