Louis XII: Medieval King or Renaissance Monarch?
A ruler in transition - Howell Lloyd looks at the icons of power that masked the face of French kingship around 1500.
Political
Gender, Class and Nation
Leonore Davidoff on how women's history has been interwoven with debates on society and identity and its prospects for durability.
Gossip or Chronicler? Versailles and Saint-Simon
Michel Petheram assesses the importance and reliability of a courtier whose 'memoires' offer graphic vignettes of the last days of Louis XIV.
Irish Irenics
Andrew Boyd on past efforts to bring Ireland's warring factions to the peace table.
Soviet Marxism's Obituary?
Robert Service looks at how Gorbachev's revolution has left an open agenda for Soviet historians.
Chatham Revisited
Jeremy Black takes a fresh look at the career and reputation of the 'great outsider' of Hanoverian Britain.
Richard Coeur-De-Lion
Sir Steven Runciman profiles a fabled Englishman, concerned with the political and military relationships between East and West.
French Resistance and the Algerian War
During the 1950s the Algerian struggle against France and its white settlers for independence inflamed passions and hatreds in both countries – while a small number of French men and women helped the Algerian liberation movement in defiance of their government and the sentiments of the majority. What made them do it?
An Introduction to Henry VIII
David Starkey provides an introduction to the remarkable ruler and places his achievements in a European context.
'Insects of the Hour': Dr Price's 'Revolutions'
Stuart Andrews considers the life and radical milieu of the dissenting preacher whose support first for the American and then the French Revolutions brought him public controversy, and in the case of the latter, triggered Edmund Burke's classic denunciation of 1789.