Political

Vietnamese troops faced little resistance when they entered Cambodia's capital on January 7th, 1979.

A power struggle in postwar Germany erupted on January 5th, 1919.

Mark Rathbone asks why the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia emerged in the 1850s as the likely unifier of Italy.

Graham Goodlad assesses the conduct of British foreign policy in the era of the Congress system.

The head of Japan's Second World War government was executed on Dec 23rd, 1948

York Membery looks back to the crunch 1920s election which saw the party of Gladstone narrowly pushed into third place – a position from which it has never recovered.

At the end of the First World War, the British monarchy sought to strengthen bonds across the English-speaking world. Frank Prochaska discusses the ambassadorial role played by Edward, Prince of Wales, in the United States.

On November 9th, 1908, Aldeburgh unanimously elected as their leader Mrs Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, who became Britain’s first female mayor.

To understand why Americans believe their nation to be innocent of imperialism we must go back to the Founding Fathers of the Republic, says Graham MacPhee.