La Route Des Abolitionnistes
Graham Gendall Norton travels in search of those who fought for the rights of all.
History Today
Napoleon: A Classic Dictator?
Laurent Joffrin looks at the paradoxes surrounding a man who has fascinated the French for two hundred years.
Napoleon's Last Journey
Christopher Woodward considers the continuing power exerted by Napoleon on the French and British during his exile on St Helena up till, and beyond, his death.
Ruth Ellis Executed
The last woman hanged in Britain was executed on 13 July 1955.
Remember, Remember, The Fifth of November
David Prior of the Parliamentary Archives explains why we should be thinking about the Gunpowder Plot unseasonably early, this year.
The Sinking of the Lancastria
Jonathan Fenby asks why the greatest maritime tragedy ever to affect Britain was hushed up at the time and has remained a virtually untold story.
Rethinking the Armenian Genocide
The year 1915 saw the start of the Armenian genocide in Turkey. In his account of the complex historical background to these events Donald Bloxham focuses on the issue of great power involvement.
The End of The Roman Empire: Did it Collapse or Was it Transformed?
Bryan Ward-Perkins finds that archaeology offers unarguable evidence for an abrupt ending.
Birth of Giuseppe Mazzini
Richard Cavendish charts the life of the Italian nationalist Guiseppe Mazzini.
Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Ian Bottomley introduces an exhibition which reflects a special moment in Anglo-Japanese relations in the 17th century, echoed today by a unique loan arrangement between the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds and the Nikko Toshogu Shrine, resting place of the first significant Shogun.