History Today

Cherry Barnett investigates the tiny colony of Macau located west of Hong Kong as Lisbon prepares to relinquish its title as 1994 European city of culture.

Richard Evans discusses the nature of the German Romanticism in the wake of a major new initiative on London's South Bank.

Michael Leech explores President Mitterland's visit to Burgundy to open a striking new museum on a wooded hillside.

From martyred medieval saint through to 20th-century museum - Philippa Glanville unravels the enigmatic history of an object which opens a window onto England's religious turmoil.

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

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.