Political

Jez Ross takes issue with the traditional view that sees the early foreign policy of the second Tudor monarch as a costly failure.

Roger Spalding examines the continuing controversy that surrounds one of the key figures in the history of the Labour Party.

John Spiller shows that, in constitution-making in the USA (1787-89), France (1789-92) and Great Britain (1830-32), some men were considered more equal than others.

F.G. Stapleton defends the record of Italian governments from 1861 to 1914.

Lord George Gordon was born on December 26th, 1751.

In 1945 Tito wrote. ‘We mean to make Yugoslavia both democratic and independent’. How was this possible, asks Basil Davidson, for a war-torn Communist country in a world of super-powers?

Roy Porter opens our new series on Picturing History, based on a series of lectures organised in conjunction with Reaktion Books, and shows how 18th-century images of the medical profession flow over into the work of political caricaturists.

Charles Saumarez Smith, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, reflects on some of the issues raised by the exhibition 'Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II'.

The election on 25 October 1951 marked the end of six years of Labour government. 

Churchill became PM for a second time on October 26th, 1951, only a month away from his 77th birthday.