Political

A.P. Ryan introduces the life and career of The Earl of Balfour: Conservative Prime Minister, 1902-5; Foreign Secretary, 1916-19; President of the Council 1919-22, 1925-9.

Ann Dewar recounts the once-annual political battle to make Derby Day a parliamentary holiday

D.C. Somervell profiles the predominant figure in British politics during the interwar years.

J.D. Hargreaves reviews the delicate truce that existed between Britain and Japan in the early years of the twentieth century.

J.D. Hargreaves on the turn-of-the-century visit of Russia's Nicholas II to France and its wider diplomatic ramifications.

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.