'You are Monarchial No. 1 and value tradition, form and ceremony.' But was Clementine Churchill's encomium of her husband always reflected in Winston's personal relations with Britain's kings and queens over six decades? Philip Ziegler presents an account of a colourful but chequered relationship.
Money makes the world go around: Kathleen Burk looks at how the Yankee dollar transferred influence from the Old World to the New.
Michael Antonucci discerns Byzantine origins in today's international power politics.
Elizabeth Manning looks at how an Enlightenment ruler enlisted opera in his struggle to homogenise and reinforce the Habsburg empire.
Brian Dooley assesses the incident which brought the world perilously close to nuclear war.
Norman Bainbridge looks at the events to mark Nottinghamshire's role in the English Civil War.
Paul K. Martin with an eyewitness account of Barcelona's rival Olympics of 1936.
Did the system spawn a monster - or a monster the system? Norman Pereira re-evaluates the road to totalitarianism in the Soviet Union after the Revolution, and Stalin's part in it.
When the Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931, resistance came not from the Chinese government, but from plucky local groups who waged guerrilla war, Anthony Coogan uncovers their little-known story and explains why it remained so.
Colin Richmond analyses the part played by the written (and spoken) word in shoring up popular allegiances to the rival dynasties
