Volume 41 Issue 12 December 1991

Ann Hills on highland games at Braemar

Miranda Vickers looks at the troubled history of Yugoslav-Albanian relations

Rehabilitating the European dynasty

Michael Burleigh examines how the impact of German unification has affected the evaluation of the country's history from both sides of the former divide.

What did Hirohito really think of Pearl Harbor? On the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack that brought the US into the Second World War, Herbert Bix offers a provocative reassessment of the Showa Emperor's responsibility for the conflict, drawing on his translations from diaries and memoirs of Hirohito and his court circle.

Hugh Brogan nominates Alexis de Tocqueville rather than Karl Marx as a useful guide to the new world order of history in the 90s.

Leah Leneman tells the little-known story of the role played by Scottish men, in the campaign to get women the vote in the years before the First World War.

Kate Lowe on Hong Kong's forgotten anniversary.

In the 19th century British interest in South America was a significant as in any of the colonies or dominions. But after 1914 it declined. Rory Miller explains how and why.