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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 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

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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