Amasis: The Pharaoh With No Illusions
John Ray on a ruler who mixed laddishness with mysticism in the last days of independent Egypt.
History Today
Combat Trauma in the American Civil War
Shell-shocked - a phrase redolent of the Western Front and the Great War. But was it also a reality fifty years earlier on the killing fields of Virginia? John Talbott investigates.
Tomorrow's History Today? Post-modern Collecting
Paul Martin considers what message our mania for collecting has for history in post-modern times.
The first metropolis?
Excavations at Catalhoyuk, Turkey
Charlemagne in Italy
The celebrated King of the Franks may have become the first Holy Roman Emperor, but what other impact and legacies did he leave Dark Age Italy? Ross Balzaretti investigates.
Fighting Knights and Sirens: The Cloister, Monreale
Lorna Walker discusses the iconography of images decorating the Cloister in Monreale and the debate about social order that it contains.
Fenimore Cooper's America
Alan Taylor examines how the social concerns and ambitions of the new republic and those of the author of Last of the Mohicans intertwined - and how they gave him the canvas to become the United States' first great novelist.
Scottish Architects in Tsarist Russia
The role of British architects in 19th century Russia: Jeremy Howard and Sergei Kuznetsov reveal how the pleasantest sight that some of Dr Johnson's Scotsmen saw was not the high road to England but the sea passage to Russia, where they found fame and fortune making a key contribution to urban remodelling and architecture.