Political

A.D. Harvey recalls the career of the Swedish king whose assassination inspired a famous opera.

Jerry Brookshire shows that the ‘special relationship’ in 1945-51 was in safe, and curiously similar, hands.

Steve Smith shows that those who control the present are sometimes able to control interpretations of the past.

Bernard Porter points out similarities and contrasts between terrorism then and now.

Andrew Cook looks at the idea of the unaided assassin, and finds several 20th-century examples.

John Slatter celebrates the far-ranging contributions of Russian political émigrés to British life in the half-century before 1917.

Graham Goodlad asks if the media did more to support or to challenge politicians during the last century.

F.G. Stapleton examines the role played by the armed forces in the government of the Second Reich.

Robert Pearce introduces the man who has been called ‘the George Washington of Poland’.

Once seen as doing too little to avert the depression and characterised as ‘Silent Cal’, the reputation of US President Calvin Coolidge is changing.