Social

Eric Evans looks at the industrial and economic backdrop to the developments of Britain's Welfare State. 

Richard Cavendish visits True's Yard folk museum and heritage centre in Norfolk.

We may all know about Nefertiti, but what was life like for the less-famous women of ancient Egypt? Joyce Tyldesley describes the restraints and freedoms operating on daughters of Isis. 

Richard Ollard looks at the rise and fall of Sherborne Castle.

Susan Cole looks at how, though formally excluded from the political process, Athena's sisters nevertheless made their mark.

François Hartog on how urban living has coincided with the advocacy of popular rule from Plato through to Machiavelli, Rousseau and 20th-century sociologists.

John Benson on the lessons of charity from Britain's worst ever mining disaster

Keith Hopkins takes us on a tour de force via original texts of the hopes, dreams, assumptions and frustrations of the Roman schoolboy.

Did Andres Aranda Ortiz die for his crimes or his anarchist beliefs in a Barcelona prison just before Christmas 1934? Chris Ealham considers an episode that lays bare the social and political tensions of a Spain on the eve of civil war.

Anthony Pollard explains how the rivalry of two great Northern families contributed to civil war in fifteenth-century England.