Volume 51 Issue 11 November 2001

David Hockney explains how a question about some Ingres drawings led to a whole new theory of Western Art

Mark Goldie reveals some vivid insights into London life before and during the Glorious Revolution, from a little-known contemporary of Pepys.

Martin Roberts regrets lost opportunities in the recent reform of A-level syllabuses

Martyn Housden tries to unravel what Hitler really meant when he talked about living space for the German people.

In the second article in the Picturing History series, Sander Gilman reflects on images of the First World War and the photographs of Alan Cohen.

Tom Griffiths continues our series on History and the Environment, travelling into the longue durée of the Australian past.

John Beckett investigates the thorny, and sometimes illogical, issue of what makes a City.