Did Europe's Mercantilist Empires Pay?
Trade may have followed the flag, but was there enough stimulus in imperialism to aid national bank balances and development from 1500 onwards? Patrick O'Brien sifts the evidence.
History Today
Citizen Kane
Sarah Street discusses how 'Rosebud' and Pearl Harbor are inextricably entangled in this most enigmatic of film portrayals of a media tycoon.
English Heritage Goes to the Wall
Ann Hills investigates a new online database of all English Heritage historic wall paintings.
Combat Trauma in the American Civil War
Shell-shocked - a phrase redolent of the Western Front and the Great War. But was it also a reality fifty years earlier on the killing fields of Virginia? John Talbott investigates.
Amasis: The Pharaoh With No Illusions
John Ray on a ruler who mixed laddishness with mysticism in the last days of independent Egypt.
Tomorrow's History Today? Post-modern Collecting
Paul Martin considers what message our mania for collecting has for history in post-modern times.
The first metropolis?
Excavations at Catalhoyuk, Turkey
Charlemagne in Italy
The celebrated King of the Franks may have become the first Holy Roman Emperor, but what other impact and legacies did he leave Dark Age Italy? Ross Balzaretti investigates.