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William Makin investigates an evil organisation, accomplice of a bigoted, racist and corrupt monarchy.

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.

Louis Crompton argues that male love and military prowess went hand in hand in classical Greece.

Obedience, modesty, taciturnity – all hallmarks of the archetypal 'good woman' in colonial New England, But did suffering in silence invert tradition and give the weaker sex a new moral authority in the community? Martha Saxton investigates, in the first piece from a mini series examining women's social experience in the New World.

Warwick Bray on a new illustrated edition of a colonial 'Domesday Book' for the Aztec world.

Omer Bartov traces the impact of people's armies from Napoleon to the First World War and beyond.

How the Livery companies of London prepare to show they are ready for the millennium

E. Hall looks at the methods used in ancient Greece to court public opinion in the light of the modern media and messages of democratic politics today.

Were the 'barbarians' who shored up Rome's armies and frontiers the empire's salvation or doom?