Political

Graham Goodlad assesses the political skills that helped Charles II to escape the unenviable fates of his father and brother.

The American Civil War was not a simple struggle between slaveholders and abolitionists, argues Tim Stanley.

The Russian prime minister was shot during festivities to mark the centenary of the liberation of Russia's serfs on 14 September 1911.

George III was crowned on September 22nd, 1761, aged 22. One of the longest reigns in English history was under way.

Martin Evans introduces a short series looking at changing attitudes to history in the former Communist states.

Gordon Marsden revisits Henry Fairlie's prescient obituary of Aneurin Bevan, first published in History Today in October 1960.

Robin Waterfield looks at the influence of the mother of Alexander the Great in the years following her son’s death.

Robin Bayley tells how his great grandfather, a Mancunian businessman, became caught up in the tumultuous period of worker unrest that paved the way for the Mexican Revolution.

Syria was among the most unstable states in the Middle East until Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. But, asks James Gelvin, can his son, Bashar, maintain the regime’s iron rule in the face of growing dissent?

The heart of the last heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire was buried on July 17th in Hungary.