Political

Jonathan Lewis takes issue with a common interpretation.

John Matusiak provides a post-revisionist perspective on Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset.

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.

Howard Amos interrogates a key text on colonialism and assesses its influence.

Stephen Young puts the career of the 40th American President into historical perspective.

T.A. Jenkins reviews the life and legacy of Benjamin Disraeli, statesman, novelist and man-about-town, on the bicentenary of his birth.

Nicholas Vincent celebrates the founder of the Plantagenet dynasty.

Martin D. Brown tells the little-known story of how British and American soldiers disappeared in Slovakia’s Tatra Mountains during the remarkable episode of Slovakia’s National Uprising against its Nazi-supporting government during the Second World War.

Was Margaret Thatcher’s government close to defeat during the dark days of the miners’ strike of 1984-85?

On November 1st, 1954, an insurrection broke out in Algeria.