Rock 'n' Roll and Social Change
Richard Welch charts the extraordinary explosion in American music and argues for its impact on society as a whole.
History Today
Aztec Warfare
Ross Hassig questions whether the rationale behind the fighting in Mexico which Cortes encountered in 1519 has not been misunderstood.
Artist of the Enlightenment
Joseph Wright of Derby and the exhibition at the Tate.
History's Straw Polls?
Robert Waller on the history, dangers and importance of opinion polls.
The British School at Rome
Ann Hills on a major new appeal to aid a school famous for its archaeology and exhibitions.
The Crescent and the Flag
Aram Bakshian on the historic tensions of Islam and secular nationalism
The Tsars' Cathedrals
Pamela Tudor-Craig tours the cathedrals of the Kremlin.
Political Heroes of the Victorian Music Hall
Michael Diamond discusses what popular songs and singers had to say about Britain's politicians in the 1880s and 1890s.
A Godly Peer? Leicester and the Puritans
Pious nobleman or calculating humbug - what is the true characterisation of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester? Simon Adams sifts the motives for the patronage given to some of Elizabeth's sternest religious critics by her favourite courtier.
Akhenaten - Ancient Egypt's Prodigal Son?
The author of a 4000-year-old hymn to one God has been portrayed as a mad idealist who turned the civilisation of the pharaohs upside down. John Ray discusses the man and his myth.