Soviet Marxism's Obituary?
Robert Service looks at how Gorbachev's revolution has left an open agenda for Soviet historians.
History Today
Juvenile Delinquency in the Graeco-Roman World
Bovver boys in Athens and Rome? Apparently so, according to Robert Garland, who uncovers tales from life and legend to show how high jinks could turn to blows in the classical world.
A Minoan Maginot Line
Annette Bingham on the discovery of a complex military defence system on Crete
Archaeologists Sent to the Tower
A new tourist attraction in the nineteenth-century restored wine vaults by the Tower of London.
Creating the First Computer
Babbage’s Difference Engine and the mechanical pre-history of computing.
Heritage and the English Landscape
David Lowenthal looks at how landscape has shaped and reflects the English view of themselves.
Vehicles for Culture
New insights in Celtic history in Europe
British Association for Local History
Richard Cavendish looks at the BALH, a national body set up to promote the popular subject of local history.
Big Ends or Little Ends?
David Marquand cautions against too pat a 'winners and losers' interpretation of recent history, while asserting that a role remains for theory as opposed to narrow empiricism.