The Cold War and the Olympics
From the recognition of East Germany to the banishment of Taiwan and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, diplomatic disputes dogged the Olympics throughout the Cold War.
Political
The Reforms of Tsar Alexander II
Tsar Alexander II oversaw a set of reforms which held out the prospect of modernising Russia but whose failure paved the way for revolution.
Winston Churchill and the Wartime Coalition 1940-45
In examining British politics from 1940 to 1945, Kevin Jefferys explains why the man who was widely perceived as winning the war lost the 1945 election.
Louis Napoleon elected President of France
Prince Louis Napoleon was forty when he won the election for the French presidency on December 10th, 1848.
William Pitt the Elder
Jeremy Black takes a fresh look at the complex and controversial career of the First Earl of Chatham, the 'great outsider' of Hanoverian Britain.
Wagner's Influence on Hitler and Hitler's on Wagner
Jayne Rosefield looks at the interaction between the composer and the dictator. Winner of the 1998 Julia Wood Prize.
Berlin and Cuba
Jim Broderick looks at the crisis management of two moments when the spectre of nuclear war shadowed relations between the superpowers.
Kosovo's Conflict
The troubled history of the region, and the deep-rooted antagonisms between the different ethnic groups laying claim to it.
The English Context of the British Civil Wars
John Adamson argues that the importance of the Celtic fringe in the events of the 1640s has been exaggerated.
The Commonwealth in Korea
Brian Catchpole remembers the sufferings and heroism of the Commonwealth Division in the first major conflict of the Cold War.