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In the continuing series 'What is...history?' eight historians define political history - an area sometimes regarded as 'narrow', 'elitist' or simply 'dull',

It is among the most commercial as well as maligned fields of history. Four distinguished scholars consider its value – and its future. 

The contribution of the witnesses from the Battle of Algiers to the debate on contemporary history.

The Korean peninsula was a chessboard on which the fates of great powers were decided.