Volume 43 Issue 1 January 1993

John Hartsock details the rise and fall of noble tolerance of religious freedom in 17th-century Maryland.

Ann Hills on digging up in Switzerland

Leslie Fox and friends find history is sweet in the Belize jungle.

Akbar Ahmed warns that fundamentalism is misappropriating history as sectarianism strengthens in the Indian sub-continent.

Womaniser, courtier, soldier and pioneer royal architect: Charles McKean investigates the rise and fall of a 'Renaissance man' in 16th-century Scotland.

Panikos Panayi looks at the influence and settlement of German immigration into Victoria's island.

Elizabeth Manning looks at how an Enlightenment ruler enlisted opera in his struggle to homogenise and reinforce the Habsburg empire.

Display at the National Museum of American History in memory of veterans of the Vietnam War