Social

Patrick O'Brian evaluates the costs and benefits of Hanoverian and Victorian government.

Martin Pugh charts the Women's Movement's origins and growth 1850-1939.

‘Carthage must be destroyed’ - words from Cato the Elder to seal the Punic city’s fate in its epic struggle with Ancient Rome. But what was its religion and society like?

Alistair Goldsmith describes how Glasgow's police force endeavoured to preserve the city's standing as it played host to a series of international set-pieces.

Fools' gold, Dr Faustus - traditional images of a Renaissance black art. But was there more to it than that? Zbigniew Szydlo and Richard Brzezinski offer an intriguing rehabilitation.

Lev Razgon's unique and chilling encounter with one of Stalin's mass murderers.

In the second instalment of a two part article, Roger Eatwell chooses between rival definitions of a slippery word

Robin Bruce Lockhart celebrates the past and present of the immortal dram and its historic links with our seasonal festivities at Christmas and New Year.

Denise Silvester-Carr introduces the new Famine Museum at Strokestown, County Roscommon.

Raphael Mokades - the winner of the 1996 Julia Wood Award - argues that military failure in the Boer War transformed political attitudes in Edwardian Britain.