Political

Winston Churchill wrote history with an eye to his eventual place in it, David Reynolds tells us. His idea of history also inspired his making of it.

Robert Carr traces developments in British policy between 1917 and 1956.

Robert Pearce seeks to provoke thought on the origins of a momentous election result.

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.