History Review

Richard Wilkinson argues that Cromwell had what it took to rule Britain but failed to achieve his own idealistic programme.

Robert Pearce distributes a survival kit for the most hazardous causation question of all.

Martin Pugh charts the Women's Movement's origins and growth 1850-1939.

Christopher Ray argues that Hitler's high-profile plan for invading Britain was a blind: his main intention was to fool Stalin into believing he was safe.

Previewing his forthcoming biography, Robert Knecht argues that recent whitewash has failed to cover guilty blood.

Malcolm Crook takes a fresh look at the eighteenth-century alliance between philosophers and kings.

Kenneth Baker argues that cartoonists have let recent Prime Ministers off lightly compared with their eighteenth-century predecessors.

Presentation of the past as a seed-bed of modernity gives it bogus relevance to modern concerns. Two hundred and fifty years after the battle of Culloden Jeremy Black looks at a classic instance – the military challenge of the Jacobites.

W A Speck looks at new thinking about the emergence of whigs and tories.

In the second instalment of a two part article, Roger Eatwell chooses between rival definitions of a slippery word