A Coup in Cuba
General Batista seized power on March 10th, 1952.
Political
Nation-Building in Nineteenth Century Italy
Christopher Duggan recalls the contribution of a forgotten Italian statesman - Francesco Crispi.
Churchill's Faithful Chela
Charles Lysaght strips away some of the many mysteries surrounding Brendan Bracken, Churchill’s staunch but enigmatic supporter, and the founder of this magazine.
The Folly of ‘Unconditional Surrender’
Was the call for the ‘unconditional surrender’ of Germany, Italy, and Japan the most ruinous Allied policy of the Second World War?
Henry VIII's Early Foreign Policy, 1509-29
Jez Ross takes issue with the traditional view that sees the early foreign policy of the second Tudor monarch as a costly failure.
Keir Hardie
Roger Spalding examines the continuing controversy that surrounds one of the key figures in the history of the Labour Party.
Reform and Revolution
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.
Liberal Italy: The Midwife of Fascism or a Much-Maligned State?
F.G. Stapleton defends the record of Italian governments from 1861 to 1914.
Birth of Lord George Gordon
Lord George Gordon was born on December 26th, 1751.
Makers of the Twentieth Century: Tito
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?