Recently added articles from History Review:
Khrushchev and Stalin: Ian D. Thatcher defends the record of Stalin's successor and sees him as a forerunner of Gorbachev.(PROFILES IN POWER)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nikita Khrushchev is famous for two key events: the Cuban Missile Crisis, where the superpowers came closest to nuclear war, and deStalinisation. The Cuban Affair, admittedly dramatic and frightening at the time, was a short-term crisis in international ...
Edward IV: the Theatre of Monarchy: Hannes Kleineke examines the career of the first Yorkist king.(PROFILES IN POWER)(Biography)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Between the giant figures of Henry V, the conqueror of France, and Henry VIII, the nemesis of the catholic church in England, King Edward IV (1461-83) is often lost sight of. In a dramatic reign of 23 years he reestablished the authority of the English Crown both at home and abroad and ...
The Soviet-American arms race: John Swift examines a vital element of the Cold War and assesses the motives of the superpowers.(THE UNPREDICTABLE PAST)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The destruction of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American atomic weapons in August 1945 began an arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. This lasted until the signing of the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty of ...
Charles I: author of his own downfall? Graham Goodlad examines differing interpretations of the part played by King Charles I in the outbreak of the civil war.(TALKING POINTS)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In outline the disastrous events of Charles I's reign are well known to students of the seventeenth century. The king's inability to work with Parliament led, four years after his accession, to a conscious decision to govern without its collaboration ....
How to write your first undergraduate essay: Jeremy Black prepares readers for the rigours of university history.(SURVIVAL SKILLS)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Well done! You have got into university to read history, one of the most interesting subjects on offer. One reason it is very interesting is that there is a clear progression from the challenges at A level to the requirements of a degree. And that is your problem. You have been set your ...
Heroes: David Hipshon regrets the degree to which our history syllabuses have censored the roles of British heroes.(OPINION FORUM)(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Where have all our heroes gone? A generation ago history lessons in Britain would have reverberated with stirring tales of native heroes: Boudicca, Alfred the Great, Richard the Lionheart, Francis Drake, Clive of India, Wolfe of Quebec, Nelson and Wellington. Their stories are now untold, ...
Otto Klemperer: Diarist of Nazi Germany: Robert Pearce recommends a first-hand account of the Third Reich.(TALKING POINTS)(Victor Klemperer)(Biography)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 'In the late afternoon we walked up to Dolzschen. This line--the last words in two volumes of diaries by Victor Klemperer spanning the years from 1933 to 1945--may seem matter-of-fact, prosaic, even dull. Yet in fact they are wonderfully inspiring and ...
Forever young: myth, reality and William Pitt: R. E. Foster examines the career of Pitt the Younger.(PROFILES IN POWER)(Biography)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A Young Man in a Hurry: 1759-1783 William Pitt is, in some respects, an unlikely political icon. A delicate child, he was described as a man by H. A. Bruce as a 'tall, ungainly, bony figure'. Pitt was a satirist's gift. The best known, James ...
Serbian nationalism and the great war: John Etty questions whether Serb nationalism was an irresistible force that helped unleash the First World War.(THE UNPREDICTABLE PAST)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Historians tend to blame nationalism for the European ills which led to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. They are able to cite many examples of German aggression, and coyly quote British sources to show that nationalism had even managed to affect our ...
Sixteenth Century Catholicism: more reaction than reform? Simon Lemieux provides an overview of 16th-century Catholicism, focusing on the key issues often selected by examiners.(SURVIVAL SKILLS)
Mar 01, 2009; ... A historical riddle might well begin thus, 'When is a reformation not a reformation? When its" the Catholic Reformation'. To study the reform, renewal and changes which the Catholic Church underwent in the sixteenth century is to embark on a journey into the complexities of definition, ...
Marie Stopes: Janet Copeland introduces one of the most important feminist figures in twentieth-century history.(PEN PORTRAITS)(Biography)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 'All progress,' wrote George Bernard Shaw, in a celebrated half-truth, 'depends on the unreasonable man.' He should also, of course, have added the unreasonable woman. Many considered that Marie Stopes fitted this category nicely. She never seemed a ...
Henry VIII.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Henry VIII Lucy Wooding ****** Roudedge, 2009 368 pages, 13.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN-10 0-415-33995-2 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The anniversary of Henry VIII's accession to the English throne in April 1509 is ...
Mary Tudor.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Mary Tudor Judith M. Richards **** Routledge, 2008 270 pages, 13.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN-10 0-415-32721-0 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] History, if done properly, can be a very humbling profession; historians are ...
Edward Heath: Robert Pearce attempts to put the Prime Minister of 1970-74 into historical perspective.(PROFILES IN POWER)(In memoriam)
Dec 01, 2008; ... In almost all assessments of twentieth-century Prime Ministers, Edward Heath (PM in 1970-74) comes way down the list of high-achievers. Yet on what criteria are sucia judgements based? Electoral approval is clearly important in any democracy. By this yardstick, Heath was surely ...
John Bland, rector of Adisham: Graham Noble assesses the significance of one of the earliest Marian Martyrs.(PEN PORTRAITS)(Biography)
Dec 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mary Tudor's doomed attempt to restore the Gatholic faith in England led to the execution by burning of nearly 300 unrepentant, evangelical heretics between 1555 and the Queen's own death in 1558. More than a fifth of these were persecuted in the county of ...
From Castlereagh to Canning: continuity and change in British foreign policy: Graham Goodlad assesses the conduct of British foreign policy in the era of the Congress system.(TALKING POINTS)(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] British foreign policy during the long premiership of Lord Liver pool (1812-27) was dominated by the need to safeguard national interests in the context of the fragile European stability established at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. For the first decade, ...
Dutch tiger: the booming economy of the Dutch Republic (1579-1650): Rowena Hammal explains why the United Provinces enjoyed a 'Golden Age' in the first half of the seventeenth century.(THE UNPREDICTABLE PAST)(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Dutch Republic, or United Provinces of the Netherlands, was one of the economic giants of the early modern period. Formed in 1579, by 1650 the Republic was dominating European trade and had developed an impressive overseas empire, outshining that of ...
Reputations deserved or otherwise: Richard Wilkinson questions the motives of important historical figures, and of historians writing about them.(OPINION FORUM)(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tout comprendre est tout pardoner ('To understand all is to forgive all'). Is it history's trade, therefore, to understand, to forgive and to rescue reputations from ill-informed malice? Might this suggestion have cheered Captain 'Bowler Bill' Turner of ...
Essays with commentaries: Richard Hughes lends us the benefit of his expertise.(SURVIVAL SKILLS)
Dec 01, 2008; ... While the two short essays (with comments) which follow are based specifically on the requirements needed for Edexcel AS Unit 2, they do illustrate issues applicable to all structured history essays. The Questions A structured essay always requires a candidate to make ...
Piedmont in the 1850s: Mark Rathbone asks why the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia emerged in the 1850s as the likely unifier of Italy.(TALKING POINTS)
Dec 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 1849, no one in Italy would have put any lire on the kingdom of Piedmont emerging as the catalyst of Italian unification. In March of that year, its army had suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Austrian Empire at Novara. Its king, Charles ...