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Michael Leech investigates the Smithsonian, a national landmark in America.

David Price on the links between the can-can of the 1890s and 1990s lap dancing.

Ben Shepard looks at the post-war experiences of Japanese POWs

Mark Sandle on three new contributions to the study of post-1917 Russia.

Reviews of three new books focussing on military history and the British Army

by Samuel Johnson

Penny Johnston introduces the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, Maryland.

Two new books on Eastern Europe in the medieval and early modern period

Chris Townsend focuses on the recent furore surrounding child nude photography and discovers that our forebears were not so camera-shy.

James Walvin on how tea, sugar and tobacco hooked Britons into a fondness for the fruits of imperial expansion.

Robert Buckley explores the access for people with disabilities to historical sites

Reviews on books coering Russian history

Richard Cavendish remembers the life and death of Alfred Nobel, December 10th, 1896.

John Ray on a ruler who mixed laddishness with mysticism in the last days of independent Egypt.

Richard Hodges soaks up the atmosphere at the Temple of Aphrodite, Knidos.

Fernando Gonzales de Leon discusses why young aristocrats were less than keen to fight for his Most Catholic Majesty.

Philip Mansel looks at interchange and intrigue in the cross-currents of 18th-century culture between East and West.

Three books exploring Renaissance Italy

A reflection on the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a one of Scotland’s most innovative architects.

Francis Robinson reviews

Two new books explore 17th-Century society

Jonathan Morris reviews three new works on important figures in European history

Our round-up of the latest history titles from the publishing world catering for the general reader and specialist alike.

An insight into how Belgium has used lottery funds to bring medieval status back to life.

Jonathan Steinberg looks at two titles on Nazism.

Michael Leech celebrates the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

Graham Darby looks at recent guides to seventeenth century Europe.  

Matthew Christmas looks at recent summaries of the debate on 19th century political history.

Frank McDonough looks at a lively introduction to the Fuhrer.

Richard Harding praises a thought-provoking historical atlas.  

C.D.C. Armstrong reviews recent books on the English Reformation.

Stephen Cross reviews a recent guide to the Third Reich.  

Christopher Ray reviews recent guides to the 19th and 20th centuries.

Philip Mansel looks at a definitive study of ancien regime politics.

John Derry examines four books on the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.

15th-century ship The Matthew features in the first International Festival of the Sea.

Two new books on Religion in Europe from the 16th century

John Derry exposes popular myths about a misunderstood statesman.  

Richard Wilkinson reassesses the much-maligned prelate, asking whether the man who steered France through the minority of Louis XIV deserves such as bad press....

Previewing his forthcoming biography, Robert Knecht argues that recent whitewash has failed to cover guilty blood.

The celebrated King of the Franks may have become the first Holy Roman Emperor, but what other impact and legacies did he leave Dark Age Italy? Ross Balzaretti...

On a cold January morning in 1649 Charles I stepped out onto a scaffold in Whitehall and into history, seen by some as a tyrant, by others as a martyr. But how far...

Mark Mazower investigates what happens to children in the aftermath of war and conflict.

Peter Coates looks at how environmental history is pushing its way up the agenda.

Shell-shocked - a phrase redolent of the Western Front and the Great War. But was it also a reality fifty years earlier on the killing fields of Virginia? John...

Anne Laurence takes a look at a history course which compares the cultures of 17th century Britain and France.

Diarmaid MacCulloch reflects on the 'after-life' of Henry VIII's archbishop, burnt at the stake as a Protestant martyr under Mary. 

Edward Ranson on the house race that split and defined a fin-de-siecle US.

Ann Hills investigates a new online database of all English Heritage historic wall paintings.

Alan Taylor examines how the social concerns and ambitions of the new republic and those of the author of Last of the Mohicans intertwined - and how they...

Tony Aldgate looks at how a 60s film about a Cockney Lothario dealt with sex, censorship and angry/ cynical young men.

Dan Leab looks at a classic Cold War movie and the shadowy figure who inspired it.

Richard Cavendish unthreads the history of this Worcestershire museum.

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of December 19th, 1796

A look at a new exhibition in Venice, which shows the flow of culture between East and West in early Greece.

Steven Gunn explores the surprising similarities between the impetuous Valois duke and the cautious Tudor pragmatist.

Peter Morris reviews two books on post-war French politics.

Andrea Wolter-Abele looks at how machines and industrial society provoked new concepts of creativity.

From pigeon post to the Internet - Dagmar Lorenz on how the communications revolution has produced the global village.

Denise Silvester-Carr introduces the new Famine Museum at Strokestown, County Roscommon.

Edward Coleman weighs up Modern Italy's Northern League against its medieval Lombard inspiration.

Harry Hearder argues that Metternich got it wrong - Italy's sense of unity is the oldest and most deeply rooted in Europe.

Richard Evans looks at the social and intellectual pressures that forced Germany to rethink how and why it punished wrongdoers.

Diana Webb looks into the pleasures and pitfalls of an early tourist experience.

Peter Atkins and Paul Brassley uncover alarming 19th-century precedents for the ‘mad cow’ fiasco.

Maxim Gorky was revered as the leading Russian artist and intellectual associated with the 1917 Revolution throughout the lifetime of the Soviet Union. But did he...

Richard Cavendish explores a quantity of bygones in the museum of social history.

Richard Hodges wanders through the medieval village of Rocca in Tuscany.

The Eternal City was captured after a year-long siege on December 17th, 546.

Simon Smith questions our image of buccaneers as bloodthirsty opportunists claiming they were often highly organised and efficient businessmen in the waters of the...

Beasts behind bars - Katharine MacDonogh tells the tale of the animals forced to share their owners' fall from grace after 1789.

Gerd Horten on how 'soaps' helped win the war after Pearl Harbor.

R.I. Moore reviews three different works on the making of the Middle Ages

Justin Champion looks at two books on cultural and intellectual change in early modern Europe.

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.

The role of British architects in 19th century Russia: Jeremy Howard and Sergei Kuznetsov reveal how the pleasantest sight that some of Dr Johnson's Scotsmen saw...

16th October 1946

Mikulas Teich looks at the impact of scientific transformations since 1900, and how these changes have produced a new world culture and global organisation.

Uwe Oster on the motorway prototype that Hitler hijacked.

Bernard Porter argues that the 'End of Empire' unravelled British domestic politics as well as her international outlook.

Rudolf Kippenhahn on how astronomy has altered our vision of the universe - from 10th-century Cairo to the Big Bang.

Graham Shipley meets the dead in a Greek cemetery - an oasis of classicism in modern Athens.

Tony Lentin gives an upgraded assessment of Russia's empress 200 years after her death.

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...

Phillip Drennon Thomas on how Henry III's elephant started the ball rolling for one of London's earliest visitor attractions. 

Elizabeth van Houts reconstructs memories of occupation (with echoes of the 1940s) from post-Norman conquest chronicles.

Richard Cavendish sniffs hallowed turf and delves into real tennis history at Wimbledon's Museum.

David Loades examines two new books on the Tudor state

David Ellwood discusses America's cultural take-over of Europe in a seemingly innocent Italian 1950s comedy called "Un Americano a Roma". The comedy features a...

As Luang Prabang, Laos' former royal capital of South East Asia becomes the latest addition to UNESCO world heritage sites, Cherry Barnett explores its...

Dauvit Broun looks at the making of a nation, 1000-1300, which formed a crucial element in the shaping of medieval Britain.

Three new books explore the vicissitudes of the Second World War

Vasily Andreev on how far War (and the fear of it) has fuelled innovation this century.