History Review

Graham Noble investigates the causes of the rise and fall of French Protestantism.

Graham Darby explains how and why the creation of the Dutch state preceded the existence of Dutch national feeling.

Edgar Feuchtwanger warns against exaggerating the extent or significance of liberalism’s failure in German history.

Peter Anderson compares the tactics and resources of the two sides.

Alison Rowlands investigates the case of a 'child-witch' during the Thirty Years War.

Placing Colbert in the circumstances of his times, Geoffrey Treasure shows that he was much more than an efficient bureaucrat.

Kenneth J. Baird examines change and continuity in 19th-century British social history.

Retha Warnicke unravels the evidence on the rise and fall of Henry VIII's second wife.

The article that follows comes from True to Both My Selves, Katrin Fitzherbert's prize-winning history of her Anglo-German family. Spanning a century and two world wars, the book centres on three generations of women who each lived part of their lives as Germans and part as Britons, depending on the state of politics between the two countries.