Volume 4 Issue 10 October 1954

Only by a trick of fate in 1683, finds J.H.M. Salmon,  were Charles II and his brother preserved from an ambush that might have put an end to monarchy in England.

Felix W. Crosse assesses the life and legacy of Duke Charles of Brunswick.

Sir Lewis Namier examines the British Parliamentary groupings of the country gentlemen and their reactions to the movements of public opinion during the years 1750-1783.

Just over a thousand years ago Chinese printers completed the publication of the Confucian Classics—an event as important in the history of civilization as the printing of the Gutenberg Bible. By Adrian L. Julian.

C.R. Boxer examines the travels and writings of Robert Knox in a 17th century Buddhist kingdom.

Erich Eyck compares the legend and the reality of Prussia's infamous 18th century ruler, Frederick William I.