History Review, Issue: 36

Richard Kelly compares three books on a similar theme.  

Robert Pearce reviews a mixed bag of new publications.

Stewart MacDonald introduces the humanist scholar whose writings made him one of the most significant figures of 16th-century Europe.  

Richard Wilkinson argues that, for all his faults, a case can be made for the aloof aristocrat at the Foreign Office in 1900-1905.

Alan Farmer has been impressed by a new CD-ROM.

William Doyle discusses traditional and revisionist interpretations of the downfall of the Kings of France, arguing that notions of a 'desacralised monarchy' are...

Peter Clements assesses why two nations which seemingly had so much in common at the beginning of the 1930s were at war with each other by the end of the decade.

Many have seen the Restoration of the monarchy, which which took place on May 29th 1660, as inevitable. Yet Ivan Roots, defying augury, is impressed by its...

How should we interpret the Bolshevik Revolution, in the light of later events? Michael Lynch explains the issues with which we have to grapple and gives tips on how to...

Can a truthful biography of Thomas More be written? Aware that yawning gaps in the evidence have been filled by legend, and that most of us prefer comforting illusion...