Her race, sex, and a murder mystery were all factors blocking the career of Edmonia Lewis, a 19th-century black American sculptress struggling against the odds at the height of the US Civil War, yet she succeeded in overcoming all three. Here Patricia Cleveland Peck tells her remarkable story.
Graham Gendall Norton explores the opportunities open to those who like to sail into the past.
David Childs argues that Mary Rose, the Tudor battleship which was raised from the depths in 1982, represented the beginning of British naval greatness.
T.G. Otte goes to the heart of Whitehall to explore the origins and future of an important government archive which is becoming far more accessible to historians.
The British bombed the Danish capital for a second time, on September 2nd, 1807.
The flight of the earls on September 4th, 1607, was the first of many departures from Ireland by native Irish over the following centuries.
Richard the Lionheart was born in Oxford on 8 September 1157.
Laurence Rees, whose work as a TV historian has brought him face to face with many people involved in mass killings, discusses the opportunities and dangers of oral history.
Mark Bryant looks at the way caricaturists viewed the scandal engulfing France at the end of the 19th century.
David Nicholas reveals the skill and good fortune behind Britain’s First World War intelligence operation, and the coup by which the Zimmermann Telegram was cracked, tipping the balance in getting the US to join the Allied war effort.
