The German chancellor Otto von Bismarck saw himself as a puppet-master, engineering British politics from afar in his feud ...

Hungary had been ruled successively by Turkish sultans and Austrian emperors for centuries when the 1848 upsurge of revolutionary nationalism in Europe struck Budapest, where liberty, equality and ...

The Kings and Queens: An Irreverent Cartoon History of the British Monarchy by Kenneth Baker (Thames and Hudson 192 pp.) The Age of Caricature: Satirical Prints in the Reign of George III by Diana ...