Much Ado?
David Dean looks at an Ontario exhibition presenting a new image of the Bard.
History Today
Roy Foster
Daniel Snowman meets the historian of modern Ireland and biographer of Yeats.
The Strange Death of Dag Hammarskjöld
Matthew Hughes on new evidence on the 1961 death of the UN Secretary-General.
Yale University Celebrates
Rosalind D’Eugenio reviews 300 years of academic history.
England's Past For Everyone
Anthony Fletcher outlines the Victoria County History's exciting plans for a new century.
Bismarck and the Cartoonists
W.A. Coupe explores the polarised opinions aroused by the 'Iron Chancellor', as revealed in the German press.
The Body Politic: Diseases and Discourses
Roy Porter opens our new series on Picturing History, based on a series of lectures organised in conjunction with Reaktion Books, and shows how 18th-century images of the medical profession flow over into the work of political caricaturists.
Painted Ladies
Charles Saumarez Smith, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, reflects on some of the issues raised by the exhibition 'Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II'.
Rome in Poland
Richard Monte presents the forthcoming Polish film adaptation of Quo Vadis.
Django, Jazz and the Nazis in Paris
John D. Pelzer shows the connections between jazz, youth and the German Occupation.