Mother and Child in the Greek World
Women were evaluated principally as child bearers and child rearers in the male-orientated world of ancient Greece, but not without dignity or compassion.
History Today
Cultural Decolonisation: UNESCO & Africa
John D. Hargreaves discusses cultural reconstruction and its political implications.
The Monastic Revival
Intellectual sharpness and an aggressive building programme marked the Norman transformation of English monasticism.
The Norman World of Art
Anglo-Saxon art gave way to Romanesque under the Conqueror and his successors, but the change was more gradual and less one-sided than the political changes might lead us to suppose.
The Littlecote Curate's Egg
Sarah Jane Checkland visits a 15th-century Wiltshire Manor House.
Agricultural Gangs
'Rude, rough and lawless' was one view of the women and children employed on the land in Victorian England. But was theirs a harsher fate than work in the factory system?
A Chosen People? The English Church and the Reformation
Was the Protestant Church of Elizabeth the catalyst for a new patriotism, based on a special sense of English destiny and divine guidance?
New Light on Dark Age London
Stephen Williams investigates the excavations at Leadenhall Court of the surviving portion of Roman London’s Forum- Basilica.
England in Europe 1066-1453
Nigel Saul takes a look at the significance of the Norman conquest.
Domesday Rebound
Domesday's facelift for its 900th birthday reflects modern scholarship's changing taste as well as the new priorities of conservation.