Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart had a distinguished career as a diplomat, writer and director-general of Churchill's Political Warfare Executive during the Second World War. But as a young diplomat and Acting Consul-General in Moscow, he was caught up in a chain of events that included being head of Britain's first mission to the Bolshevik Government, subsequent involvement in a plot to overthrow them, and imprisonment in the Kremlin - worthy of a novel by Le Carré.
John Crowfoot considers the role flags and anthems have played in defining Soviet and Russian identities, past and present.
Raymond Pearson on history repeating itself and other lessons from the upheavals in Eastern Europe.
Christopher Chippindale talks about hands-on archaeology
Mary Shortt recounts how the Canadian theatre fostered and reflected sentiment for the Mother Country between 1850 and 1940.
Robin Place advocates a key role for prehistory in capturing interest for things historical in school.
Richard Cavendish visits an historic mill in Derbyshire central to the Industrial Revolution.
Tony Aldous explores the pleasures of Stowe's 18th-century landscape gardens
Around the year 1000, a teenage emperor in the centre of Europe embarked on a rapprochement with his eastern neighbours employing the language and kudos of a vanished imperial Rome as part of his diplomatic offensive. Timothy Reuter looks at a remarkable episode and the use and abuse made of it subsequently by German historians and propagandists.
