Japanese Women at Work, 1880-1920
What was it like to be a 'boiled octopus' in the silk mills of Japan before the First World War? Janet Hunter looks at the life and conditions of the women who bore the brunt of Japan's rapid industrialisation.
History Today
Andranik of Armenia
Aram Bakshian tells the story of the peasant carpenter who became a brilliant guerrilla leader and national hero, and who struggled to wrest a free Armenia from Turkey and Russia in the aftermath of the First World War.
Gardens Old to New World - and Back Again
National Trust work to restore the gardens of Stowe
Putting the 'H' in Stonehenge
Christopher Chippindale on a Stonehenge for all seasons.
Stranger than Fiction
Ann Hills gets to the bottom of heritage whodunnits in Shrewsbury.
When in Rome...?
Richard Hodges looks at the Pompeii controversy and asks if Britain does any better.
British Agricultural History Society
Richard Cavendish finds plenty to chew the cud on, courtesy of the BAHS
Hitler's Biggest Blunder
Why did Germany declare war on the US in December 1941? Nicholas Henderson considers motives and consequences in the days before and after Pearl Harbor.