Polling in a Pandemic
The general election of 1918 was a ‘cynical muddle’ held as influenza killed thousands across a country emerging from the First World War.
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Germany United
The first German constitution was ratified in April 1871. Designed by Otto von Bismarck to preserve the old regime, it would eventually help bring about its downfall.
One Election Too Many
The Representation of the People Act, which received royal assent on 30 July 1948, abolished university constituencies.
Who is History’s Worst Political Adviser?
Four historians consider the harm caused by those who should have helped their political masters.
The Colonels’ Failed PR Coup
A British public relations company in cahoots with sympathetic MPs was unable to whitewash the military regime that seized power in Greece in 1967.
Child Voters
In the politically chaotic decades before true universal suffrage, some infants found a way to vote in British elections.
In the Eye of the Voter
How presidential images show us that in politics, as in entertainment, appearances matter.
Disraeli or Churchill?
Boris Johnson is facing a national crisis like few other prime ministers. Which of his predecessors will he draw comparisons with?
On the Home Front
A lively, privileged group of young intellectuals grew ever more alarmed by the crises that struck Britain in the mid-1740s.
Still Fighting the Civil Wars
The uneasy balance between rulers and counsellors has been a feature of British politics for centuries.