The end of Romanov rule, 1914–17
The Bolshevik seizure of power October 1917
The democratic experiment 1918–29
The rise of the Nazis, 1919–33
Nazi Germany, 1933–39
Germany at war, 1939–45
Labour in power 1964–70: ’white hot heat’?
States of emergency, 1970–79
‘There is no alternative’: the Thatcher response, 1979–90
A changing society, 1964–90
The British Raj: the government of India, 1857–1948
The economics of empire, 1857–1948
Resistance to British rule, 1857–1948
Military power and its limits, 1857–1948
Order and disorder, 1900–76
The impact of the world on China, 1900–76
Economic changes, 1900–76
Social and cultural changes, 1900–76
Communist government in the USSR, 1917–91
Industrial and agricultural change, 1917–91
Control of the people, 1917–91
Social developments, 1917–91
Governing South Africa, c1948–2014
Opposing the government of South Africa, c1948–2014
Economy and society, c1948–2014
Relations with the outside world, c1948–2014
‘A New Nation’, 1763–83
‘A More Perfect Union’, 1786–91
‘Jacksonian Democracy’, 1828–37
‘A House Divided’, 1850–61
War and the end of slavery, 1863–65
Britain and the Napoleonic Wars, 1803–15
The Crimean War, 1854–56
The second Boer War, 1899–1902
Trench warfare on the Western Front, 1914–18
Britain and the struggle with Nazi Germany, 1939–45
The birth and early years of the Second Reich, 1870–79
The birth and early years of democratic Germany, 1917–24
The birth and development of the Third Reich, 1930–39
Establishing and ruling the new Federal Republic, 1949–60
The last years of the German Democratic Republic and reunification, 1985–90
‘Free at last’, 1865–77
The triumph of ‘Jim Crow’, 1883– c1900
Roosevelt and race relations, 1933–45
‘I have a dream’, 1954–68
Race relations and Obama’s campaign for the presidency, c2000–09
Historical interpretations: What explains the downfall of the Napoleonic Empire, c1805–14?
‘Trying to put Humpty-Dumpty together again’: the Treaty of Vienna and its aftermath, 1815–48
The rise of Piedmont and the unification of Italy, 1848–70
Prussia and the creation of the Second Reich, 1848–71
Historical interpretations: what explains the outbreak of war in Europe between the great powers in August 1914?
Trying to achieve victory and making peace and trying to keep it, 1914–c33
The drift to renewed conflict, 1933–41
The world in flames, 1941–45
Historical interpretations: What explains the outbreak and development of the Cold War in the years 1943–53?
Conciliation and confrontation, 1953–64
Stalemate and Détente, 1964–79
Renewed confrontation and resolution, 1979–90
Historical interpretations: what explains the outbreak, course and impact of the Korean War in the period 1950–53?
The emergence of the Cold War in South East Asia, 1945–60
War in Indo-China, 1960–73
South-East Asia without the West: the fading of the Cold War, 1973–90