When did England become England? Was Alfred really the great ruler of all the English - or was it just a question of clever Wessex PR? Patrick Wormald investigates the myths and realities of unification in Anglo-Saxon England.
Richard Cavendish and the leitmotiv of lost innocence at Elgar's birthplace and museum near Worcester.
Helen Davidson on how mining history is in jeopardy.
Has our image of Henry VIII's elder daughter as 'Bloody Mary', burning Protestants and unhappily married to Philip of Spain, clouded our assessment of how close she came to restoring the old religion?
Glenn Richardson profiles the French king's relationship with Henry VIII and the cultural PR and diplomacy that went with it.
Andrew Wilton discusses a picture that shows the great landscape painter in a role removed from his stereotype, and which tells us much about the changing mores and aspirations of 'Middlemarch' England.
Without the economic muscle of the Netherlands' largest city, William III would never have been able to stage Britain's 'Glorious Revolution' or urge European war against Louis XIV. But his relationship with Amsterdam's burghers was far from smooth, as Elizabeth Edwards outlines here.
Richard Cavendish looks at an exhibition at the Museum of London on the diversity of the capital.
Anthony Pollard explains how the rivalry of two great Northern families contributed to civil war in fifteenth-century England.
Oriental dealers Eskenazi and their new London outlet
