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

Russel Tarr asks key questions about the religious radicals of the 16th century.

Russell Tarr sees similarities but also important contrasts in the foreign policies of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy

Reforms to divorce law inevitably prompt moral panic as they did in Victorian England.

Brutality, corruption and abuses of power in the Metropolitan Police at the turn of the 20th century led to an inquiry – but no reform.

Michael Foot celebrates the anniversary of the London Library with a tribute to its founder, Thomas Carlyle.

The aim of Charles I’s foreign policy was to restore his nephew’s lands in the Rhineland. France, he thought, was the key to success. 

The House of Lords, often in the shadow of the Commons, asserted its power during the reigns of James I and his son, Charles I.

The trial of Captain William Kidd raised uncomfortable questions for the state about the pirate’s role in the consolidation of England’s early overseas empir