Courtier, soldier, explorer, colonist, scholar, family man, libertine: in his life Elizabeth's favourite played many parts, and posterity has accentuated each according to the needs of the time, as Robert Lawson-Peebles explains.
Kit Wedd gives an account of the winners from History Today's 1997 history writing awards.
The legendary figure of the Wild West was born on 19 March 1848.
Claire Tomalin previews a National Portrait Gallery exhibition which focuses on mother and daughter Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.
Nicholas Doumanis discovers surprisingly favourable memories of Italian occupation from the Dodecanese Greeks who experienced it between the years 1912-43.
Ed Young investigates the ancient process of Egyptian mummification.
Denise Silvester-Carr celebrates the reopening of Charleston House to the public.
Andrew Pettegree charts Hans Holbein’s path from Germany to England and points to the ironies of his reputation as a great Protestant painter.
Barry Doyle compares today's multiplex cinemas with the picture palaces of pre-war Britain.
Antony Taylor reveals that Eco-Warriors were active more than a century ago.
