Europe

Ian Kershaw sees 1945 as a real watershed in Europe’s history of the last century.

Paul Doolan visits a new museum in Geneva that presents the history of Reformed Christianity and Calvinism as a key and positive factor in European history.

‘A damnable and hellish plot’ orchestrated by a ‘shame to mankind’. 

Donald Zec has written the life of his brother, the wartime political cartoonist Philip Zec, to remind the world of his rich collection of cartoons that caught the mood of the British people at war. The following is an extract from the book.

The two halves of the railway tunnel linking Switzerland and Italy met on April 2nd, 1905.

David Nicholas suggests that America’s involvement in northern Europe was unwittingly shaped by a British War Office official, against the wishes of the President.

Russel Tarr outlines what was at issue in the clash between Catholics and Protestants.

In his latest article about today’s historians, Daniel Snowman meets the creator of some of the finest TV history programmes, including Auschwitz, currently being shown on BBC2.

Jonathan Lewis takes issue with a common interpretation.

Richard Evans has written two articles for History Review explaining how a modern, progressive country surrendered to a brutal and murderous dictatorship. In the first, he traces Hitler's rise to the Chancellorship.