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Russel Tarr considers key issues from the life of the famous Cardinal.

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

Russell Tarr explains how the Bolsheviks established their grip on Russia after the 1917 Revolution, and at what cost.

A manager of men and a master of contemporary politics, writes Esmond Wright, Dundas was Pitt's energetic colleague “during the most critical years in Britis

Mark Rathbone analyses the causes and consequences of sudden changes of policy in nineteenth-century British politics.

Fundamentalism has become the face of Islam in the West. It was not always so and need not be in the future, says Tim Stanley.

A thief who had been dead for more than a century caused a moral panic in the theatres of Victorian London. 

Contrary to myth, it wasn’t Prince Albert but another German royal transplant who introduced the Christmas tree to Britain.

Political reputations are forged by actions, but the long view of history can be hard to predict.

What voting rights did Britons have in the century before 1918?

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.

Anthony Fletcher uses the papers of his artistic great-aunt, who, as a young nationalist, wrote an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising, to explore her yo