Impeachment started in the medieval period in Britain in order to prosecute corrupt, over-mighty officials for “high crimes and misdemeanours” but dropped just after it was written into Article 1 of the 1787 constitution of the recently liberated United States.
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the hope of the revolutionaries for a better world does not appear to have materialised. But that should not take away the extraordinary courage of those who took to the streets in the autumn of 1989.
Is it wise to mix Christmas festivities with politics? December elections in the UK have traditionally signalled a crisis in politics. Professor Sarah Richardson describes some of the UK's more tumultuous Christmases.
The political landscape in the nineteenth century is generally considered to have been bleak for women who could not vote and were discouraged from participating in public life. Yet, there were many important pioneers campaigning for women’s rights who remain largely unknown but who should be celebrated. Professor Sarah Richardson, expert in women and political culture in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century, from the University of Warwick, chooses just five.
England’s most remarkable period of political turmoil continues to stalk the popular imagination, explains Dr Imogen Peck.
It is, of course, too early to make a balanced judgement about Theresa May’s legacy. That can really only happen once Brexit is resolved. But we already have some sense of where she will sit in the hall of fame dedicated to bad prime ministers, write Professor Wyn Grant.
The Fourth of July is the most celebrated of all the national holidays in the United States. Professor Tim Lockley from Warwick's Department of History explains why one day represents years of change.
Gentleman Jack: The story of Anne Lister is a gripping, real life,19th-century tale of one woman's bravery in sex and politics, writes Dr Sarah Richardson.
New research on the Soviet economy in the prelude to World War II reveals a society at war with the world and within itself, writes Mark Harrison, professor of economics at the University of Warwick.
The devastating fire that destroyed the roofs and spire of Notre-Dame in Paris demonstrates the vulnerabilities of medieval cathedrals and great churches, but also reveals the skills of their master-masons, writes Dr Jenny Alexander, from the University of Warwick’s department of the history of art.
