Canada's Chinese Connection
Penelope Johnston describes China's revered North American hero
History Today
Sweet Charity
Milton Goldin compares American philanthropy past and present.
Watching Not Whaling
Ann Hills on fishing tales from Hawaii
Surprise, Surprise - An Elizabethan Mystery
John Bossy has painstakingly reconstructed from clues and evidence, a hitherto untold story of intellectual intrigue, spying and double-cross in Elizabethan England.
Hudson’s Bay Company: The Lords of the Northern Forest
The incorporation of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1670 reveals much about the personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.
Goodbye To All That?
John Roberts finds nationalism a better bet than the idylls of Marx for the longue duree of historical understanding.
Iron Age Gold in the Hills
Keith Nurse describes important Iron Age finds in Norfolk on display at the British Museum
Poultry Mania
James Driver gains an insight into current food controversies from the Victorians.
Puffery Prevails - Etiquette in 19th-Century England
Marjorie Morgan discovers the origins of the image-making of modern marketeers and admen in the upwardly mobile world of 19th-century English society.
The Augustan Palatine
Peter Wiseman reconstructs the splendour and intrigue of Imperial Rome