American Democracy Through Ancient Greek Eyes
Barry Strauss looks at the contrasts and similarities between the city-states and the 'land of the free'.
History Today
The Devil and the Saints in the Conquest of Mexico
Fernando Cervantes explores the conversion process from polytheistic human sacrifice to devotion to the Mother Church.
Turner and Shakespeare's Jessica
Andrew Wilton discusses a picture that shows the great landscape painter in a role removed from his stereotype, and which tells us much about the changing mores and aspirations of 'Middlemarch' England.
A Grave Injustice: Wingate and the Establishment
David Rooney argues that Chindit commander Orde Wingate has had his Burma campaign unfairly judged by military establishments.
A Cavalier Cartograpgher
Todd Gray and Mark Stoyle take a look at a map discovered in Plymouth of the sieges of the Civil War.
History Transported
Michael Leech examines the new look for the London transport museum.
Hidden Assets
Ian Locke ponders on how careless we have been in the past in the wake of the Matrix-Churchill Iraq supergun affair.
Never Again?
Ronnie Landau looks at the latest charges of genocide over Bosnia and wonders how often history must repeat itself.
New Horizons for the American West
Wild Bill Hicock and wagon trains - familiar images of pioneer spirit, but a more complex and less triumphalist view of how the American frontier moved West is explained by Margaret Walsh.
Sherborne Castle
Richard Ollard looks at the rise and fall of Sherborne Castle.