Volume 42 Issue 3 March 1992

David Eastwood considers how the myth of the great statesman, who put country and Corn Law Reform before partisan advantage, is standing up in the light of modern scholarship.

Andrew Ayton analyses why Englishmen went off to fight in France in the Hundred Years' War, and elsewhere.

Dipesh Chakrabarty looks at the dialogue between nationalism and the inspiration of Marx in the formation of the world's largest democracy.