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Cover image: Dame Lillian Penson’s Seminar [on British foreign policy in the later nineteenth century], June 1957, Dame Lillian is seated on the far left; © Professor Walter L. Arnstein. Institute of Historical Research, Wohl Library: IHR/10/2/2. Reproduced by kind permission of the Institute of Historical Research’s Wohl Library and Professor Walter L. Arnstein’s family.
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