Political

Steven Gunn explores the surprising similarities between the impetuous Valois duke and the cautious Tudor pragmatist.

Graham Darby spins a thread to guide you through the labyrinth of The Causes of the Thirty Years War.

Harry Hearder argues that Metternich got it wrong - Italy's sense of unity is the oldest and most deeply rooted in Europe.

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.