Volume 57 Issue 8 August 2007

As Britain gets used to the ban on smoking in public spaces, Virginia Berridge looks at the way attitudes to public health have changed in the last fifty years, particularly among the medical profession.

Richard Barber describes the discoveries he made when Channel Four’s Time Team uncovered Edward III’s huge circular building at the heart of Windsor Castle.

Charles Hind looks at the work of one of the most influential architects in the world, in his home city of Vicenza, northern Italy.

Neil Faulkner and Nick Saunders, Co-directors of the Great Arab Revolt Project, tell how a recent field trip to southern Jordan sheds light on the theories and exploits of T.E. Lawrence.

York Membery interviews the eminent historian Norman Stone about his life in Turkey and his latest book.