History Today

Michael Leech explores President Mitterland's visit to Burgundy to open a striking new museum on a wooded hillside.

From martyred medieval saint through to 20th-century museum - Philippa Glanville unravels the enigmatic history of an object which opens a window onto England's religious turmoil.

Keith Feldman explores the multi period sites in northern Israel dating from the Iron Age to the late Byzantine era.

Obedience, modesty, taciturnity – all hallmarks of the archetypal 'good woman' in colonial New England, But did suffering in silence invert tradition and give the weaker sex a new moral authority in the community? Martha Saxton investigates, in the first piece from a mini series examining women's social experience in the New World.

Warwick Bray on a new illustrated edition of a colonial 'Domesday Book' for the Aztec world.

Ann Hills on conflict in trust at Orford Ness

Home movies for the Museum of the Moving Image

How Islamic was the founder of Pakistan? Akbar Ahmed offers a radical reassessment of his life and motives - and the forces that propelled his change of course.

Xinzhong Yao examines the prospects for Christianity in China based on past performance.