History Review, Issue: 61
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R. E. Foster puts the dissolution of the monasteries into historical context. |
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Robert Pearce investigates the career of the Third Reich’s ‘evil genius’. |
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Russel Tarr introduces the new International Baccalaureate, assessing its advantages and disadvantages compared with A Levels. |
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Michael Morrogh sees value in historical films, despite their evident imperfections. |
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John Spiller assesses James I’s impact on the Puritans and the Puritans’ impact on James I. |
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Richard Wilkinson recreates the contest that marked, and marred, the British war effort in 1914-18. |
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Simon Dixon has enjoyed a new biography of the ‘Sun King’. |
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F.G. Stapleton introduces the ‘weather vane ideology’. |
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Graham Goodlad reviews the controversial career of William Pitt the Elder, whose ascendancy coincided with Britain’s involvement in the Seven Years’ War. |
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Viv Sanders takes issue with some all too common assumptions. |
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Graham Noble separates fact from Tudor propaganda. |
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Mark Rathbone analyses the causes and consequences of sudden changes of policy in nineteenth-century British politics. |