Volume 42 Issue 8 August 1992

A new museum and tours dedicated to the battles of the Somme

Tony Aldous discusses the missing millions in the art world

Richard Cavendish carves out some monumental history in Derbyshire

Norman Bainbridge looks at the events to mark Nottinghamshire's role in the English Civil War.

Neil Evans on the Continent's Celtic connections

Anthony Gross traces the tenacious efforts of Henry VI's partisans to regain the throne from the House of York, and at a strange alliance that nearly paid off.

Trevor Fisher chronicles the backlash against libertarianism in art and literature in the closing years of the Victorian era.

The 1942 Allied raid on Nazi-occupied France and its lessons for D-Day.

Pictures worth a thousand words - William Coupe traces, via cartoons, the changes in attitudes and public opinion in the Kaiser's Germany towards the First World War.

Paul K. Martin with an eyewitness account of Barcelona's rival Olympics of 1936.