First Blood to the South: Bull Run, 1861
The rebel yell that dispelled hopes of a quick Union victory – Brian Holden Reid looks at the battle that set the scene for the American Civil War's protracted and bloody conflict.
History Today
Wear and Tear in Roman Wiltshire
Keith Nurse explores the excavations of recently-discovered Roman remains
Is there Now, or Has there Ever Been, A Working Class?
Bryan Palmer looks at the dialogue between Marxism, class struggle and working-class identity in the changing fortunes of working-class history in North America and beyond.
The Rise and Fall of the Tower of London
A place to inspire visions of secret prisoners, torture and the axe - but the reality was less blood-soaked and more varied. Geoffrey Parnell chronicles the fortunes of the capital's royal fortress.
Trinity College, Dublin: 1592-1992
Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland celebrates its 400th anniversary in 1992. John McGurk discusses the history of the college, set up for the cultivation of virtue and religion.
Peel and the Tory Party Reconsidered
David Eastwood considers how the myth of the great statesman, who put country and Corn Law Reform before partisan advantage, is standing up in the light of modern scholarship.
War and the English Gentry Under Edward III
Andrew Ayton analyses why Englishmen went off to fight in France in the Hundred Years' War, and elsewhere.
Marxism and Modern India
Dipesh Chakrabarty looks at the dialogue between nationalism and the inspiration of Marx in the formation of the world's largest democracy.
A Lost Common Wealth
John MacKenzie on the role and future of Commonwealth House
Ale Tales
Margaret Ballard considers the research of the Brewery History Society