Brunel, Biography, JFK & Darcus Howe

3 Review - John F. Kennedy

5 Editorial

6 Anne Herbert: A life in the Wars of the Roses - Ian Dawson

13 The President's Column

14 Contemporary and Historical Biography: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004-14: A ten-year review- Lawrence Goldman

20 The Unfortunate Captain Peirce: an apprentice biographer researches the career of an eighteenth-century sea captain - Philip Browne

26 Question and Answer with - Lucy Hughes-Hallett

30 The Black Leveller - Writing Darcus Howe: a political biography - Robin Bunce and Paul Field

34 Obituaries: the first verdict in history - Bob Chaundy

36 Twitter Historical Biography competition

37 News from 59a

38 My Favourite History Place Sackville College, East Grinstead - Caroline Metcalfe

39 The printed word in ten tweets - Paula Kitching

40 Out and About On the Track of Brunel - Dave Martin