History Review

Russel Tarr introduces the new International Baccalaureate, assessing its advantages and disadvantages compared with A Levels.

Graham Goodlad reviews the controversial career of William Pitt the Elder, whose ascendancy coincided with Britain’s involvement in the Seven Years’ War.

R. E. Foster puts the dissolution of the monasteries into historical context.

John Spiller assesses James I’s impact on the Puritans and the Puritans’ impact on James I.

Robert Pearce investigates the career of the Third Reich’s ‘evil genius’.

Mark Rathbone analyses the causes and consequences of sudden changes of policy in nineteenth-century British politics.

Richard Wilkinson, our regular reviewer, has been reading books on the early modern and modern periods.

R. E. Foster explains the young Palmerston’s progress from Tory to Liberal.

Richard Hughes shows there is more of historical interest to William Prynne than his famous auditory organs.

Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez introduces a distinctive method of engaging with the past.