Scotch Comfort and Joy
Robin Bruce Lockhart celebrates the past and present of the immortal dram and its historic links with our seasonal festivities at Christmas and New Year.
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Ireland's Famine Museum
Denise Silvester-Carr introduces the new Famine Museum at Strokestown, County Roscommon.
The New Liberalism
Raphael Mokades - the winner of the 1996 Julia Wood Award - argues that military failure in the Boer War transformed political attitudes in Edwardian Britain.
The Rise and Fall of the Age of Miracles
Roy Porter charts the whirlwind of medical triumphs that promised limitless progress in human health and our more sober reflections on the eve of the third millennium.
The Trauma of 1066
Elizabeth van Houts reconstructs memories of occupation (with echoes of the 1940s) from post-Norman conquest chronicles.
New Prospects from Renaissance Tuscany
Richard Hodges wanders through the medieval village of Rocca in Tuscany.
Early Modern Witch-hunts
Robin Briggs believes some historians produce more fantasies than the witches they study.
Radio Days on America's Home Front
Gerd Horten on how 'soaps' helped win the war after Pearl Harbor.
Belgium's Lottery Culture
An insight into how Belgium has used lottery funds to bring medieval status back to life.
Workers and Nazis in Hitler's Homeland
What did ordinary people in Nazi-controlled Austria really think about their native-born Führer, Adolf Hitler? Tim Kirk opens a window on a unique record of public opinion – a Gestapo equivalent of 'Mass Observation' in 30s Britain.