The Return to Confucius?
Robert Bruce asks if China has refound Confucius.
History Today
Van Eyck's United
Michael Leech previews the Jan van Eyck exhibition at the National Gallery.
Archaeology at the Crossroads
Tony Aldous reports on the latest developments in archaeological practice.
The Empire Behind the Lines
Michael Broers explores the measures and restrictions imposed by Napoleon on his many subjects and how, within the boundaries of the Empire, they responded to his rule.
Charlemagne's Church at Aachen
Janet L. Nelson looks at the history of this church in the small town in the North-Rhine Westfalia region of western Germany.
The Lost Palace of Whitehall
On the tercentenary of the fire that destroyed it, Simon Thurley describes the significance of the royal Palace of Whitehall to the Tudor and Stuart monarchs who lived there.
Napoleon and Europe
The Spirit of the Age or The Scourge of Nations? Jeremy Black sets the scene for our major series on the impact of Napoleon on Europe.
Napoleon: The Myth
A.D. Harvey looks at the enduring myth surrounding one of history’s ‘Great Men’, and how he dominated the nineteenth-century imagination outside France.
Sakhalin: the Japanese Under Soviet Rule
Mariya Sevela gathers oral recollections from the people of Karafuto, a Japanese colony on the island of Sakhalin from 1905 until the arrival of the Soviet army forty years later.
Birth of Lewis Carroll
The author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was born on January 27th, 1832.