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Why is the sordid murder of Horst Wessel, a young Nazi storm troop leader in Berlin in early 1930, so important? Nigel Jones recalls his death and the black legend that sprang from it.

Graham Gendall Norton explores the opportunities open to those who like to sail into the past.

John Etty examines how far history has been moulded by enviroment.

Viv Sanders corrects the male bias in the study of the civil rights movement in the USA.

Alan Farmer assesses the personal responsibility of the Führer

How was rabies – a disease that still kills thousands worldwide every year – largely eradicated from Victorian Britain?

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.

Will the new super-casinos bring about the demise of the commercial bingo hall? Carolyn Downs traces the history of the game back to the eighteenth century and finds that then – as now – it had a strong attraction for women gamblers.

The Indian Mutiny and Rebellion, which broke out 150 years ago this month, was the greatest revolt against British imperialism of its century. Joseph Coohill uncovers some Indian accounts of what happened and why.

Richard Hodges says the rubbish tips of Anglo-Saxon London and Southampton contain intriguing evidence of England’s first businessmen.