Film in Context: Alfie
Tony Aldgate looks at how a 60s film about a Cockney Lothario dealt with sex, censorship and angry/ cynical young men.
History Today
Italy's First Northern League?
Edward Coleman weighs up Modern Italy's Northern League against its medieval Lombard inspiration.
The Trauma of 1066
Elizabeth van Houts reconstructs memories of occupation (with echoes of the 1940s) from post-Norman conquest chronicles.
New Prospects from Renaissance Tuscany
Richard Hodges wanders through the medieval village of Rocca in Tuscany.
When Did Scotland Become Scotland?
Dauvit Broun looks at the making of a nation, 1000-1300, which formed a crucial element in the shaping of medieval Britain.
Nazis Executed at Nuremberg
Alfred Rosenberg, Joachim von Ribbentrop and others were condemned on 16th October, 1946.
Electing the President, 1896
Edward Ranson on the house race that split and defined a fin-de-siecle US.
Domitian and the Dynamics of Terror in Classical Rome
Peter Wiseman offers some intriguing thoughts on the world of the emperor Domitian - its traumas and terrors - to mark the 1900th anniversary of his assassination.
The Sale of Offices in French History
Offices for sale have always been a key feature through French history but here William Doyle offers some new and surprising thoughts on their appeal and longevity.
The HA on the Move
Ian Fitzgerald investigates some changes to the Historical Association.