Happy New Year from M.I.5
Christopher Andrew reflects on a light-hearted side to the British security services.
History Today
Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi'
Francis Robinson on an epic film of the life of the Indian politician, released in December 1982.
Van Dyck in England
Celia Jones previews this magificent exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
Jacobites and the Jacobite Rising
F.J. McLynn reviews the broad historiography of the Jacobite cause.
George Elgar Hicks: The Artist and His Work
Rosamond Allwood reviews the 1983 exhibition at London's Geffrye Museum.
Death Without Dishonour: Suicide in the Ancient World
Robert Garland takes an unusual look at attitudes to death in ancient Greece and Rome.
1933: Continuity or Break in German History
Ian Kershaw wonders whether there was one single path of German history leading inexorably to Nazism.
Painter of Victorian Life
F.M.L. Thompson looks at the public reception of the artist George Elgar Hicks.
Black People in Britain: Response and Reaction, 1945-62
Paul Rich argues that while the official response to post-war immigration was slow to develop, the tensions and white backlash of the late fifties marked its emergence as a national political issue.
The Rise of the Nazis
Fifty years ago this month, Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor of Germany by the aging President Hindenburg. How were the Nazis able to 'seize power' in this way? Jeremy Noakes begins our special feature by explaining their success.