The Reign of Spain
Book Review: The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Melancholy Monuments of Chivalry
From Cyprus and Anatolia to Rhodes, the Levant’s castles bear witness to the struggle for supremacy between East and West
The Public Doctrine of Maurice Cowling
The head of the Peterhouse historical school was concerned with finding a British national identity based on truth and Christian commitment
2010 and All That
Book Reviews: Crown and Country: A History of England Through the Monarchy by David Starkey; and The Story of England by Michael Wood
Smoke on the Water
A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided by Amanda Foreman
Eastern Questions
Crimea: The Last Crusade by Orlando Figes
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
The Bletchley Park cryptographers were a rum bunch. Their successors are keeping up the good work
Connoisseur of Fraud
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman
How the West was Invented
Emperor of the West: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire by Hywel Williams
Moral Fog of War
Moral Combat: A History of World War II by Michael Burleigh
London and the Fornicating ’50s
Capital Affairs: The Making of Permissive Society by Frank Mort
Has Britain Found a Role Yet?
The leading historians Professors Norman Stone and Jeremy Black discuss how this country might recover its once unique contribution to Western civilisation with Standpoint Editor Daniel Johnson