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Jason Edwards takes a fresh look at attitudes to the nude in Victorian art, to coincide with Tate Britain's major exhibition on the subject opening this month.

Paul Brassley puts MAFF's policy towards Foot and Mouth Disease into historical perspective.

How far, asks R.D. Storch, did the reforms in the system of law enforcement, and the detection, trial and punishment of criminals introduced in the nineteenth century make for better order and a real reduction in crime?

Julian Reed-Purvis investigates Stalin's role in the origins of the great purges.

John Claydon charts a course across the complex minefield of Nazi historiography.

Edgar Feuchtwanger assesses Bismarck's controversial career and legacy.

Michael Morrogh explains why Gladstone took up the cause of Irish home rule and why his policies failed so tragically.

Jeri DeBrohun looks at the meanings expressed in the style of clothes and personal adornment adopted by men and women in the ancient world.

Alistair Bonnett identifies the ingredients that produced an 'identity crisis' for white people in the early 20th century. 

John Morison shows how an accumulation of grievances resulted in a spontaneous revolution in Russia in 1905.