Military

Leslie Marchant sees the Opium Wars as a philosophical clash between two cultures and two notions of government and society.

On May 31st, 1902, the Peace of Vereeniging was signed, ending the Second Boer War between Britain and the two Afrikaner republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State.

Mark Weisenmiller shows how the fate of Al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners in Cuba is linked to a US Supreme Court decision of sixty years ago.

Joanna Bourke on how new ways of looking at masculinity are revising our view of men’s experience in the First World War.

Richard Wilkinson explains what went wrong in Anglo-German relations before the First World War.

Stephen Brumwell discusses attitudes towards Veterans in mid-Georgian Britain, and the provisions made for them.

Duncan Anderson reflects on the Falklands War twenty years on.

Valerie Holman describes the little-known role played by the cartoonist Kem in assisting the British propaganda effort aimed at Iran.

J.W. Bartlett on the response of the British public to government campaigns to finance ship-building during the Second World War.

A.D. Harvey assesses the role of the Soviet Air Force in the defeat of Nazism.