Political

Richard Cavendish remembers King Farouk's succession to the Egyptian throne on April 28th, 1936.

Stephen Alford admires a perceptive article on Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I’s ally and consummate political fixer, by the distinguished Tudor historian Joel Hurstfield, first published in the 1956 volume of History Today.

Joel Hurstfield's pen portrait of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-98) appeared in History Today in December 1956.

In the light of current events in North Africa and the Middle East, David Motadel examines the increasing frequency of popular rebellions around the world.

Jacqueline Riding examines how a 19th-century painting, created almost 150 years after the Jacobite defeat at Culloden, has come to dominate the iconography of that event.

Michael Bloch tells the story of one of the more unusual dynasties related to the Windsors.

Berlusconi is a product of the country's incomplete unification, argues Alexander Lee.

The Mamelukes were massacred in Cairo on March 1st, 1811.

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of this great emperor's accession, on March 7th, AD 161.

Held during a period of intense great power rivalry, the Hague Conference sought to prevent conflict but ended up rewriting the laws of war instead.