Bowling Towards the Armada
Dymphna Byrne looks forward to the 400th anniversary of the Spanish Armada
History Today
The Spanish Guerrillas in the Peninsular War
Proud patriots perhaps, but were the irregular forces in Spain's war against Napoleon a help or a hindrance? Charles Esdaile investigates.
The Images of St Dunstan
Tim Tatton-Brown reviews the picture of one of Anglo-Saxon England's best-known saints built up at a major exhibition in Canterbury for the millennium of his death.
Perestroika's Impact on Soviet History
Georgy Smirnov investigates the reforming policies in the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev.
British Rail's Unsettled Viaduct
Tony Aldous comments on a scheduled ancient monument on the Settle-Carlisle Line.
Spendthrift King's Accounts Found
The chance discovery of a 14th-century parchment charting the financial habits of Richard II
England's Ancien Regime
Was eighteenth-century England dynamic, entrepreneurial and secular, or hierarchic, conservative and confessional? Jeremy Black investigates recent 'revisionist' reassessments of the period.
The Foundling Hospital
Roy Porter describes an institution of the mid-18th century designed to care for abandoned infants.
Football's Fighting Traditions
John Williams, Eric Dunning and Patrick Murphy discuss the long history of British football hooliganism.