Did Andres Aranda Ortiz die for his crimes or his anarchist beliefs in a Barcelona prison just before Christmas 1934? Chris Ealham considers an episode that lays bare the social and political tensions of a Spain on the eve of civil war.
Keith Hopkins takes us on a tour de force via original texts of the hopes, dreams, assumptions and frustrations of the Roman schoolboy.
Michael Leech on Eastern Art Deco
Colin Matthew lays out a stall for the new Dictionary of National Biography
Ian Fitzgerald on medicine and music for 'The Creation'
John Miller considers 20th-century political insiders and outsiders through the eyes of today's historians on radio.
Elisabeth Perry explains why US women did not breakthrough in politics between the wars, despite having won the vote.
Did past ages look upon babies and their needs with less than starry eyes? Nicholas Tucker sifts the evidence from the cradle in history.
Margaret Jervis on a new exhibition at the British Museum on the Egyptian empire.
