1984

Mildred Budny gauges the scale and achievement of 11th-century art.

Edited by Roy Douglas

Anthony Wright looks at the impact on socialism and society in the last 100 years of Fabianism.

ed. Nigel Smith

by R. J. Unstead

by Elias N. Saad

Mildred Budny provides some observations on the Bayeux Tapestry

A brief look at the Cabinet War Rooms underneath Whitehall.

by Robert Rhodes James

by Gwyn Macfarlane

by Henri Troyat

Irene Coltman Brown focusses on a staunch 17th-century republican prepared to die for his beliefs.

David Kiyaga-Mulindwa looks in to Southern Africa's early history.

by Robert O. Crummey

The use of guns by the police is a continuing debate in British society - as it was in Victorian times.

Recent events have provoked disquiet about the concept of diplomatic immunity: in the early eighteenth century, the British government was considerably less...

by Ronnie Butler

by Jonathan Schneer

'The Genius of Venice' at the Royal Academy, Winter 1983/4

by Gwynne Lewis and Colin Lucas; Robert Gildea; Maurice Agulhon.

by Peter Warwick

Ronald Hutton on erotica and morality through history

by Sheila Lawlor

by Bemard Porter

by F.H. Hinsley, E.E. Thomas, C.F.G. Ransom and R.C. Knight

The European images of Argentina are complex, and mirror profound debates about nationalism and universalism, popular and elite culture.

by R.W. Harris

by Raymond Aron

David Low, the cartoonist, met Horatio Blimp, a retired Colonel, in a Turkish bath near Charing Cross in the early 1930s. Many agree with C.S. Lewis that Colonel...

by Ben Fowkes

by Julius R. Ruff

For the past 600 years the island of Java has been the scene for the encounter of the two major cultural and religious traditions of the world.

The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer

Caroline Reed looks at the massive propaganda campaigns accompanying the D-Day landings

Edited by Sarah Tyacke

by Alan Bullock

Linda Pollock looks at a collection of works on the family and the home.

Anthony Sutcliffe preaches a new historical positivism

Roger Lockyer makes a plea for a greater emphasis on the study of the history of our culture.

Paul Cartledge argues ancient history should be brought in from the cold.

Peter Stansky encourages the link between the past and present in history.

Bernard Porter suggests that this is fast becoming the age of the spurious historical parallel.

Roderick Floud puts the case for the Retention of Personal Records

Arthur Marwick teaches some history lessons from the Open University.

Stephen Koss questions whether the press has ever truly mirrored public opinion

Paul Dukes urges the need to widen our vision of the past by adopting the perspective of world history.

by John F.V. Keiger

Frouke Wieringa considers the life of a great prince in the sixteenth century and the fluctuations in his fortunes during the Dutch Revolt

by Barbara Jelavich

Geoffrey Pearson believes the answer to modern violence and aggression lies in an assessment of hooliganism in the past.

Anthony McFarlane looks back to a time when freedom and independence were a common aspiration among American peoples.

Alan Heesom discusses 19th-century politics either side of the Irish Sea.

by Harry Hearder

by Robert Skidelsky

Jorvik, the Viking-age predecessor of modern York, has in recent years, been revealed by archaeologists in astonishing detail. A new underground Viking centre in the...

by E. Bradford

Robert Poole examines the continuity over centuries of a tradition in northern England.

by David Englander

Walter Minchinton discusses the rise of buildings used for ammunition manufacture.

Stephen Trombley on the study of language and ancient texts.

Anthony Birley on three new books archaeological books.

The Early Modern Period

by Russell Chamberlain

by Muriel E. Chamberlain

by Norman Gash

James Dormon continues our America and the Americas series with a look at the growth of a group of 17th-century settlers in Nova Scotia.

Listening to the words of lullabies mothers have sung to their babies over the centuries can give the historian an insight into the constancy - and expression - of...

Montgomery had five months to mastermind the Allied D-Day landings - and give the troops faith in their battle.

by Lou Taylor

The murder of young Edmund de Pashley uncovered a family feud that illuminates the realities of late-medieval crime.

by Owen Chadwick

Kathleen Burk discusses the publishing of history books.

by Mary Fulbrook

by Clive Emsley

In the 1920s and 30s the wireless transformed British politics - particularly at elections - as vote-seeking politicians had to adapt their style to the demands of a...

by Robert Eben Sackett

by Rosalind and Christopher Brooke

J.S. Morrill (ed.)

by Franqois Furet and Jacques Ozouf

Geoffrey Parker looks at the Decline of Spain.

David Harvey explores the most influential titles on women in Ancient Greece.

Peter Burke examines various reassessments of the Italian Renaissance.

David Reynolds looks at the publications charting the American Isolationist policy since 1776.

Simon Keynes examines the variety of books on Anglo-Saxon rulers.

John A. Davis discusses a range of books tackling the Risorgimento.

edited by John Ramsden

edited by Paul Slack

Geoffrey Parker travels to Germany to revisit the sites of the 17th-century conflict that saw the decline of the Holy Roman Empire and Habsburgs.

by A.G. Dickens

Douglas Johnson on a French village’s attempts to honour its local history.

by Hugh Trevor-Roper

by J.R. Hale/ W.H. McNeill

by D.C.B. Lieven

In the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 there was a battle for the mind of the new Soviet man with artists and intellectuals engaged in the struggle...

by Charles Cruickshank

Michael Hunter discusses works uncovering a period of scientific revolution.

Jenny Wormald introduces the series of ten articles on Scottish history.

by George R. Hewitt

by Terry M. Parssinen

by Richard Cobb; Alan J. Megahey

by Paul Kennedy

by D. Cameron Watt

John D. Hargreaves looks at the 1884 meeting of European nations and the impact on Africa.

Edited with an introduction by David Fraser

by Stephen and Elizabeth Usherwood

Roderick Lyall on the royal household of a medieval Scottish monarch

edited by Liz Stanley

by Maurice Cranston

by Christopher Hill

by George Grosz

A collection of works on 18th- and 19th-century France

by Carolly Erickson

edited by Graham Ross

In the Paris of the 1730s a group of printing apprentices tortured and ritually killed all the cats they could find – including the pet of their master’s wife. Why...

by Simon Hornblower

edited by B.D. Henning

by E.R. Foster

Jenny Wormald reassesses the dynasty of the Scottish monarchs and their historical importance.

Gertrude Himmelfarb considers why and when poverty ceased to be a 'natural' condition and become a 'social' problem in the Early Industrial Age.

by Marc Bouloiseau

Edited by Dr John F. West

by James Lees-Milne

by lain McLean

John Grigg questions whether D-Day could have taken place earlier and, instead, did it drag out the course of the war?

by L. Keppie

by Barbara W. Tuchman

by M. E. Mallett and J. R. Hale

Ian S. Wood assesses the desire in Britain for a Second Front and how far the nation drifted to the political left.

by Umberto Eco

Roy Porter reviews a book by Stefan Collini, Donald Winch and John Burrow

edited by Kenneth O. Morgan

Michael Houlihan claims the Allies could have used Resistance to better effect before and after D-Day.

by J.M. Bumsted

by Michael Charlton

by Derek Fraser and Anthony Sutcliffe ; Anthony S. Wohl

by Gordon Donaldson

Slavery would seem to be the epitome of domination by an all-powerful master over a passive, subservient dependent. But is this the whole picture, wonders Gad Heuman...

by Natalie Zemon Davis

by Stephen Koss

by John Erickson

Geoffrey Warner looks at the reasons for the delay in opening a second Allied Front.

by Karl Christ

by Barry Coward

Oman is frequently in the news at the moment - reflecting Britain’s crucial role in the reconstruction of this ancient Empire.

Edited by H.T. Sibome

by Antonia Fraser / Sylvia Freedman

by Shirley Sherwood

by Geoffrey Symcox

David Cannadine on the changing nature of British history in the US

edited by Istvan Hont and Michael Ignatieff

Brian Manning continues the study of the tumultuous period leading to the English Civil War.

The first of three distinguished historians at the centre of current debates, John Morrill offers his own personal conviction about the nature of the greatest of all...

David Underdown looks back to the Tudor age in discussing the upheavals of the mid-17th century.

John Gould argues for the return of national treasures ... while Malcolm McLeod expresses reservations ...

Juliet Gardiner introduces a series of articles commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of the count of Nassau who led the rebellion of the Netherlands.

John Campbell reviews a book by Piers Brendon

by Amaury de Riencourt/ by Faye E. Dudden/ by Lee Holcombe