New Lamps for Old
Richard Cavendish explores some Roman artefacts.
History Today
Erskine Childers, A Very English Irishman
Stranger than fiction - Roy Foster explores the metamorphosis of a stiff-upper-lip Boy's Own novelist into a Sinn Fein martyr.
Humanist, Inquisitor, Mystic: Cardinal Jimenez de Cisneros
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto explores the horizons, activities and seeming contradictions of pre-Reformation Spain's cleric-of-all-trades.
Boscobel's Jigsaw Puzzle
Angela Morgan tells the story of the remodelling of Boscobel House in Shropshire.
Britain's Air Defences and the Munich Crisis
Was Britain prepared for war in 1938? Not in the air, argues John Crossland, as he investigates the myths and penny-pinching that nearly scuppered the Spitfire victors of the Battle of Britain.
Scholarship and the Swastika: The Politics of Research in Occupied Poland
Michael Burleigh investigates how academia was pressed into service to legitimise Nazi imperialism in the conquered East.
Border Ways and Border Warfare
Anthony Goodman looks into the Scottish border culture.
Renewing the Rust-Belt
Tony Aldous looks at the redevelopment of the city of Lowell in America.