Political

Jeremy Black passes judgement on British foreign policy 1688-1815.

John Derry exposes popular myths about a misunderstood statesman.  

Since the 1860s Women's History has sought to recapture the experiences of a previously submerged half of the population. Sarah Newman looks to the feminist struggle to overcome prejudice and win the most basic right of all.

Alan Taylor examines how the social concerns and ambitions of the new republic and those of the author of Last of the Mohicans intertwined - and how they gave him the canvas to become the United States' first great novelist.

A budding front-bench politician and his mistress ... not a tract for our times but an 1860s relationship recovered and reconstructed from love letters by the politician's biographer, Patrick Jackson.

Mack Holt argues that the early-modern obsession with tradition was sometimes a deliberate smokescreen for innovation.

Frank McDonough reviews the debate over Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy.

John Guy doubts whether policy was ever imposed on the most wilful of kings.

He marketed himself as a man of principle - a public image of which David Eastwood exposes the inaccuracy.