Political

Julian Reed-Purvis investigates Stalin's role in the origins of the great purges.

David McKinnon-Bell assesses the degree to which Philip II's policies were motivated by religious zeal.

Paul Adelman explains a major turning point in modern British history.

Peter Neville surveys the growth of republicanism in Ireland to the present day.

Alan Farmer shows how the Republic survived the threat from the Right before the First World War.

Simon Lemieux provides guidance on essays comparing the performance of the two adversaries in Victorian Britain.

Stuart Leibiger looks at one of the most significant relationships behind the politics that produced the American Constitution.

David Johnson looks at the art of Sayers and Gillray and the role of pictorial satire in the destruction of a government.

Helen Rappaport tells the story of James Abbe, a little-known American photographer, whose images of the USSR in the 1930s record both the official and unofficial faces of the Stalinist regime.

Peter H. Wilson suggests that the aggressiveness of Wilhelmine Germany was not necessarily a direct consequence of the Prussian social system of the eighteenth century.