Political

As the 19th century wore on, social reformers campaigned for charitable modernisation. Their target: England’s most useless foundations.

For citizens of Ancient Rome, the recurrence of brutal civil war was par for the course. For writers, it was an opportunity. 

Delusions of grandeur: a ‘psychobiography’ of Woodrow Wilson.

Germany in February 1933 as it unfolded day-by-day.

In January 1848, in the Sicilian city of Palermo, the streets began to fill with crowds. From here, revolutionary sparks flew to almost all of Europe’s cities.

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope is a Whiggish history of humanism from the Renaissance to the present.

Witch-hunting happened when and where states were weak. What does a newly discovered witch-hunt in 1582 reveal about France and its ‘enlightened’ officials? 

Making the case for historical literacy in government.

The ‘pragmatic and principled’ Harold Wilson.

The sacking of a young worker on 20 August 1976 escalated into a defining industrial conflict of the late 1970s.