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Russel Tarr demonstrates how today’s technology can enliven teaching and learning about the past.

Russel Tarr shows that there is much more to using video than pressing ‘play’.

Russel Tarr introduces the new International Baccalaureate, assessing its advantages and disadvantages compared with A Levels.

Russel Tarr considers key issues from the life of the famous Cardinal.

Russel Tarr outlines what was at issue in the clash between Catholics and Protestants.

Russel Tarr asks key questions about the religious radicals of the 16th century.

Russel Tarr compares and contrasts the rise to power of two Communist leaders.

Once again Russel Tarr demonstrates how ICT can enrich and enliven the work of historians.

Can Vietdamned: How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial by Clive Webb rescue Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre’s activism from

In listening to the war’s loudest voices, Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare by Gregory Carleton drowns out the dive

Juliet Gardiner looks at recent publications marking the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s most famous work and the bicentenary of his birth

C.M. Yonge shows how, during the nineteenth century, the British public began to take a keen interest in the wonders of their native beaches.

Decent popular history would be impossible without the scholarly endeavours of the academy.

Russell Tarr sees similarities but also important contrasts in the foreign policies of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy

Russell Tarr explains how the Bolsheviks established their grip on Russia after the 1917 Revolution, and at what cost.

Antony Taylor finds the roots of Australian republicanism stretching back into the 19th century

Reforms to divorce law inevitably prompt moral panic as they did in Victorian England.

A manager of men and a master of contemporary politics, writes Esmond Wright, Dundas was Pitt's energetic colleague “during the most critical years in Britis

Caligula was assassinated on January 24th, AD 41. He reputedly slept with his sisters and wanted to appoint his horse a consul.