Political

Adrian Brunel profiles the influential revolutionary pamphleteer and political philosopher.

Eric Robson looks at the constitutional background - and legacies - of the American Revolution.

Emile de Groot on the often fractious but ever-intimate relationship between European powers and Egypt.

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, accounts for the last hours in active British politics for the 'Grand Old Man'.

A detailed account of the pageantry, expense and spectacle of the First Duke of Wellington's public funeral.

Elizabeth Wiskemann writes that Bentinck’s achievements as British Minister in Sicily, and inspirer of Italian resistance to Napoleon in the years 1811-1814, suggest interesting parallels with recent conflicts.

The memories of Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, of the political crisis that Gladstone's final resignation caused at the heart of the British government in 1894.

Alan Yorke-Long documents the beginnings of Georgian England's affair with the music of the Hanoverian composer.

A.J. Halpern queries the source of Russia's disputed status as a European state.

Maurice Cranston assesses the background and impact to Thomas Hobbes' masterwork of religious and political philosophy.