‘You Too Can Be Like Us’ - Selling The Marshall Plan
David Ellwood shows how the US fought for the people of Europe with an Americanised vision of their future.
History Today
The Historical Roots of New Labour
Kenneth O. Morgan finds that New Labour stands firmly in the mainstream of British political history.
Ecstasy in Late Imperial Rome
Dirk Bennett describes the crowded religious calendar of pagan Rome, and the spiritual market place in which Christianity had to fight for domination.
Images of a Man of Science
Patricia Fara investigates how the many paintings, prints and cartoons of Joseph Banks, botanist, explorer and scientific administrator, influenced public attitudes to science in the early 19th century.
Morris Minor Launch
The Morris Minor was launched at the British Motor Show of 1948, which opened at Earl's Court on October 27th.
Saints and Nazi Skeletons
A Jewish-born Carmelite nun murdered at Auschwitz and due to be canonised by the Pope in October, is claimed to have been betrayed to the Nazis by a high-ranking Benedictine monk.
The Cold War on TV
Taylor Downing introduces one of the most ambitious television history series of recent years, financed by Turner Broadcasting.
Who Voted for the Nazis?
Dick Geary on the voting patterns of the German people in the crucial years that brought Hitler to power.
The Treaty of Westphalia
On 24 October 1648, the Treaty of Westphalia was signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
The Archdukes in Brussels
Pauline Croft on an art exhibition in Belgium on Albert and Isabella of Austria.