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

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

Caligula was assassinated on January 24th, AD 41. He reputedly slept with his sisters and wanted to appoint his horse a consul.

John Wesley spent two years as a chaplain in Georgia in the 1730s; Stuart Andrews describes how forty years later he was much preoccupied with the

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

Coffee from Ethiopia to Brazil, rubber from Brazil to Malaya...

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.

Poor and small, Portugal was at the edge of late medieval Europe. But its seafarers created the age of ‘globalisation’, which continues to this day.

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