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Ann Lawson Lucas (Letters, April 12) may indeed have been around in the late 1940s, but she seems not to have understood what was going on. She claims that Winston [...]

Richard Davenport-Hines displays astonishing naivety in his letter (December 15). First, all sorts of diplomats had meetings with Brexiteers in the run-up to the referendum of 2016. After all, it [...]

About the only things that Stephen Hornsby (Letters, November 17) got right in his attack on my letter of October 20 are that I am now older and that I [...]

I enjoyed Seamus Perry's generous discussion of Jerome McGann's work on Byron (May 26) and his attempt to reconcile the difference in outlook between Byron and Wordsworth. Yet the two [...]

Your reviewer of Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker's magisterial account of the Armada (April 7) might have included a reference to the English Armada of 1589. Perhaps Martin and Parker [...]

I greatly enjoyed Fintan O'Toole's review of Michael Crick's biography of Nigel Farage (February 4). Much of it was original, including his comparison of Farage and Boris Johnson and the [...]

Introduction THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE is to clarify the relative roles of Austria and Prussia during the Wars of Liberation of 1813 and 1814. It uses the very latest [...]

Peter Lomas (Letters, December 18) is correct to point out that the phrase used by Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon in the referendum campaign of 2014 was 'a once in [...]

PROFESSOR HEINDL IS TO BE THANKED for providing us with an excellent overview of the history of the imperial civil service during the lust century and a hall of the [...]

Mark Cornwall (Letters, July 31) is still confused, however nuanced he wishes to appear. It was absolutely not the case that 'both Austrian and Serbian policies in the Balkans culminated [...]

THE HABSBURGS The rise and fall of a world power MARTYN RADY 416pp. Allen Lane. 30 [pounds sterling]. Courses on the history of the Habsburg monarchy are no longer fashionable [...]

The Habsburg fin de siecle has become perhaps the most fashionable topic for historians of the monarchy. The trend was begun by Carl E. Schorske in 1961 and still continues [...]