History Today

Israel's Dig for History

Keith Feldman explores the multi period sites in northern Israel dating from the Iron Age to the late Byzantine era.

Bearing the Burden? Puritan Wives

Obedience, modesty, taciturnity – all hallmarks of the archetypal 'good woman' in colonial New England, But did suffering in silence invert tradition and give the weaker sex a new moral authority in the community? Martha Saxton investigates, in the first piece from a mini series examining women's social experience in the New World.

Reel Life

Home movies for the Museum of the Moving Image