Not Such Simple Gifts
Lynne Stembridge looks beyond the homespun image of the Shakers, to reveal the substance of the original movement and its sometimes turbulent past.
History Today
What I Thought I Understood
Richard Vinen shows how events of the last 10 years have forced him to rethink his own assumptions about the past.
The Cromwell Prize Competition
Annual competition for essays on Oliver Cromwell.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Robert Poole contributes to our occasional Film in Context series, with a look at the way in which Stanley Kubrick redefined our views not only of the future, but of space itself.
Counting the Slaves
Stephen D. Behrendt marks the advent of an electronic database for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Interview: David Starkey
Daniel Snowman meets the biographer of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, media don and constitutional expert.
Death of Guiseppe Verdi
Guiseppe Verdi, described by the Italian parliament as 'one of the highest expressions of the national genius' died on January 27th, 1901, aged 87.
Roman Carlisle
Unearthing the Cumbrian city's Roman past.
A Long View of the Cold War
Paul Dukes takes a fresh look at the Cold War in the light of some recurring themes of Russian and American history since the 18th century.