In May of 1588, Spain's great Armada set sail, bent on the invasion and conquest of Elizabethan England. Simon Adams re-examines the strategic considerations that underpinned the actions of both England and Spain before and after the Armada.
Tony Aldous on mid-19th century plans for a railway station in the centre of London.
Iain McCalman discusses how politically motivated was the blackguarding by low life of high society in the Regency period.
Graham Shipley discusses how new archaeological discoveries and techniques are progressively refining our views of Classical Greece.
Victor Bailey looks at the alarming rise in British crime in the second half of the twentieth century.
Julie Richards-Williams examines the millennium of Christianity in Russia
Missionary, failed MP, counter-revolutionary, Buddhist abbot – Bernard Wasserstein tracks an extraordinary character through his secret lives across the ideological and international battleground of the early twentieth century.
Clive Emsley discovers the Victorian underworld and the attempts to combat it.
Ann Hills looks at history at the local level in Dorset
