Titanic: A Night to Forget
For a century the sinking of the Titanic has attracted intense interest. Yet there have been many vested interests keen to prevent media attention.
For a century the sinking of the Titanic has attracted intense interest. Yet there have been many vested interests keen to prevent media attention.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a masterpiece of Middle English literature, which narrowly escaped destruction in the 18th century. Nicholas Mee examines the poem to discover both its secret benefactor and the location in which its drama unfolds.
Benjamin Zachariah helps to debunk the romantic 'Legend of the Mahatma'.
Andrew Boxer explains why party political strife lacked real substance in the period after 1945.
Michael Dunne remembers the US-backed invasion of Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Glittering monument to Britain’s colonial achievement or fragile symbol of a fragmenting imperial dream? Jan Piggott charts the efforts to make Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace flourish as an ‘Acropolis of Empire’.
Graham Goodlad examines the changing role of the occupant of Number Ten in an era of significant political change.
The League of Nations has been much derided as a historical irrelevance, but it laid the foundations for an international court and established bodies that the United Nations maintains today, says Ruth Henig.
Richard Overy looks behind the myth of a vulnerable island defended by a small band of fighter pilots to give due credit to the courage of the redoubtable civilian population.
The killing of 69 black South Africans on March 21st, 1960 was a turning point: the world judged apartheid to be morally bankrupt and the political agitation that ensued would eventually overturn white supremacy.