Political

Outposts of Diplomacy: A History of the Embassy by G.R. Berridge shows us that debates about the role of the ambassador are as old as the institution itself.

‘What is the most common misconception about my field? That the republic was an absolute failure and the Restoration inevitable.’

America’s southern states were once strongholds for the Democratic Party. In 1952, Eisenhower decided to win them over.

Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich by Richard Evans asks what manner of men made themselves the Führer’s ‘paladins’.

The unholy alliance between France and the Ottoman Empire in 1530 caused great concern but had little military success.

A bloody massacre in Stockholm’s city square set Sweden on a course for independence under the leadership of Gustav I Vasa. A master of the ethos of 16th-century monarchy, his legacy is complicated.

A Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson, and the American Republic by Francis D. Cogliano explores a relationship more complex than that of comrades turned rivals.

Britain’s Second World War Conservatives and their utopian dream of world government. 

The Lost Queen: The Surprising Life of Catherine of Braganza, Britain’s Forgotten Monarch by Sophie Shorland returns the consort to her rightful place in Restoration history.

East was East and West was West – until 1989. The Wall is gone, but are its Cold War demarcations still there?