Political

A Short History of the German Student Corporations

Elizabeth Wiskemann finds that the German students’ societies have played an unusual and a characteristic part in the history of modern Germany, and yet one which their mysterious rites and code of honour have obscured, even among their compatriots.

George Bubb Dodington, 1691-1762

John Carswell introduces George Bubb Dodington; a man of pleasure; an indefatigable careerist; and an industrious and successful politician.

Walter Bagehot

Banker, economist, editor and critic, Bagehot “was the antithesis of the grand Victorian man of letters.”

Honest Tom Wharton

John Carswell analyses some of the foremost political actors in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

Algernon and the Rye House Plot

Only by a trick of fate in 1683, finds J.H.M. Salmon,  were Charles II and his brother preserved from an ambush that might have put an end to monarchy in England.