The English and Aborigines: The First Contacts
The first, uneasy, relationships between Europeans and Aborigines soon began to turn into outright hostilities, despite the well-meaning efforts of several Europeans.
History Today
The Countryside's Hidden Past
A new report on how to conserve existing ancient sites in Britain
A Jacobite Vademecum
The routes and reasons of historical pilgrims
Byron Revisited
Michael House examines the life of the unconventional poet.
Ideas and Politics in Early Stuart England
Kevin Sharpe reassesses the role that ideology, rhetoric and intellectual discussion played in the upheavals of seventeenth-century England.
Faces of Crime in Later Medieval England
J.B. Post builds a rich image of the world of criminality and justice at the end of the Middle Ages.
A Question of Guilt: Pierre Laval and the Vichy Regime
Scapegoat or quisling extraordinaire? Douglas Johnson probes the motives and actions of Vichy's chief minister to find insularity and gamesmanship his fatal flaws.
Gold in the Valleys
Ann Hills examines new National Trust properties in South Wales.