Citizen Kane
Sarah Street discusses how 'Rosebud' and Pearl Harbor are inextricably entangled in this most enigmatic of film portrayals of a media tycoon.
History Today
English Heritage Goes to the Wall
Ann Hills investigates a new online database of all English Heritage historic wall paintings.
Amasis: The Pharaoh With No Illusions
John Ray on a ruler who mixed laddishness with mysticism in the last days of independent Egypt.
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.
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.
Fighting Knights and Sirens: The Cloister, Monreale
Lorna Walker discusses the iconography of images decorating the Cloister in Monreale and the debate about social order that it contains.