Political

Otto I was crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope John XII on February 2nd 962.

Frederick the Great, the man who made Prussia a leading European power, was born on January 24th, 1712.

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.