Christmas with Sam and Elizabeth
Ron White draws on the diaries of Samuel Pepys to paint a picture of the festive season in the 1660s.
History Today
La France Libre and the Legacy of de Gaulle
Max Beloff reviews a fresh account of de Gaulle and the Free French movement.
Return to Dura Europos
It was like a page from the Arabian Nights. Aladdin’s lamp had been rubbed and suddenly from the dry, brown bare desert had appeared paintings, not just one nor a panel nor a wall, but a whole building of scene after scene, all drawn from the Old Testament in a way never dreamed of before.’
Chinese Whispers from New South Wales
Janis Wilton records the stories of 19th-century Chinese immigrants and their descendants, and explores their relationship with ‘White Australia’.
Was it British?
Gavin Weightman finds historical precedents for Britain’s response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Orwell Now
Robert Pearce gives us a view of George Orwell for the 1990s
The Union Lincoln Made
Joshua Kleinfeld explores Lincoln’s attitudes towards the constitution and civil liberty during the Civil War, and finds their impact still reverberating in the US today.
Death of Felix Mendelssohn
The prolific composer died on 4 November, 1847.
Images of a Dead Queen
‘There was such a generall sighing and groning, and weeping, and the like hath not beene seene or knowne in the memorie of man’: visual images of the death of Elizabeth I played a key role in her funeral and in creating the ensuing cult of Gloriana.