History Review

R. E. Foster sifts myth from reality in the life of the 'Lady with the Lamp'.

Graham Goodlad assesses the political skills that helped Charles II to escape the unenviable fates of his father and brother.

Mary Heimann restores Czechoslovakia to its pivotal role in the Munich Crisis.

Stuart Clayton ask whether the mass media have undermined the status of leading authority figures in Britain since 1945.

Nicholas Dixon asks whether there was a radical transition between the two eras.

Rowena Hammal examines the fears and insecurities, as well as the bombast and jingoism, in British thinking.

Richard Hughes asks whether the ‘Diabolical Duchess’ was in reality another Tudor victim.

Graham Goodlad reviews the career of A.J. Balfour, an unsuccessful Prime Minister and party leader but an important and long-serving figure on the British political scene. 

In 1789, Catholicism was the official religion of France – five years later worship was suppressed. The French Revolution posed problems for religion, but religion also posed plenty of problems for the new republic.

The paradoxical career of one of the key figures of English Protestantism.