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The philosophe may have laid the egg, but was the bird hatched of a different breed? Maurice Cranston discusses the intellectual origins and development of the French Revolution. |
Frederick the Great, the man who made Prussia a leading European power, was born on January 24th, 1712. Published in History Today, Volume: 62 Issue: 1, 2012
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The poets Gerard Manley Hopkins and Coventry Patmore both subscribed to a Tory world view, fiercely opposing the reforms of Prime Minister Gladstone. But their correspondence reveals two very different personalities, says Gerald Roberts. |
Mark Rathbone assesses the importance of the office of 'Veep' (VP) over the past 220 years. |
Robert Pearce asks why Louis-Philippe's 'July Monarchy' was overthrown. |
After he was formally condemned to death in Moscow, the Mexican government offered Trotsky refuge and protection, on December 6th 1936. |
Todd Thompson describes how the relationship between a Christian missionary, nicknamed ‘Anderson of Arabia’, and a Muslim religious leader from the Italian-controlled region of Cyrenaica played a major role in the creation of modern Libya after 1945. |
The leading Victorian radical and Liberal poltician John Bright was born on November 16th 1811. |
Clovis I died in Paris on November 27th 511, aged 46. |
Few figures in British political history have endured such lingering hostility as the statesman who did so much to forge Europe’s post-Napoleonic settlement, says John Bew. |
Jez Ross corrects misunderstandings about the origins and significance of disturbances in 1549. |
Chris Corin ressurects the life of a Soviet survivor whose remarkable and significant career deserves to be better known. |
Andrew Boxer demonstrates the ways in which external events affected the struggles of African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. |
Rachel Hammersley discusses how events in the 1640s and 1680s in England established a tradition that inspired French thinkers on the path to revolution a century later. |
Pitt the Elder resigned on October 5th, 1761, at the age of 52. |
D.R. Thorpe, Macmillan's new biographer, evokes the memory of 'Supermac'. |
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