History Review

As the second Elizabethan age closes in disillusionment, Penry Williams reconsiders whether the first deserved the same fate.

Christopher Ray queries the accepted pictures of a reluctant victim of forces beyond her control.  

Gareth Affleck identifies the points to discuss.

Richard Wilkinson challenges the consensus of contempt for the Nazis' leading diplomat.

Derek Aldcroft argues that the statesmen of 1919 failed to act in the interests of Europe as a whole.

Murial Chamberlain argues that current conceptions of Britain's power in the Victorian era owe more to his media management than to his foreign policy.

David Parker defends a controversial term against its critics.

Richard Rex argues that the main inspiration for the king's pick-and-mix religion was neither Protestant nor Catholic but Hebraic.

Edward Royle explains how labels were used in early industrial Britain for propaganda rather than description.  

Ivan Roots applies the 'new British' perspective to the 1650s.