Frankenstein and the Spark of Being
How did Regency period ideas about science and electricity influence Mary Shelley's tale of an infamous creation. Frank A.J.L. James and J.V. Field explain.
History Today
Beaverbrook - Sickert's 'Political Portrait'
Richard Shone looks at the foray into portraiture of a leading British artist and reflects on the tensions of painter-patron relations in the cultural climate of 1930s Britain.
Nazi Posters in Wartime Russia
How did Hitler's armies try and persuade the occupied populations of the Soviet Union to live with their new regime? British military historian John Erickson comments on wartime posters unearthed from the Russian archives.
Switzerland's Roman Past
Exploration of a new museum opening in Lausanne on the Roman settlement in the area
The Magazine at Colonial Williamsburg
Bruce Lenman looks at the colonial resonances of the Magazine Building, Williamsburg.
Television and The Great War
80 years after The Great War's outbreak Hugh Purcell looks at how film moulded its popular image and fused fiction with reality.
Criminal Russia: the Traditions Behind the Headlines
Mark Galeotti looks at how crime and punishment in Boris Yeltsin's Russia, and that of the Tsars, have uncanny resonances.
The First Spanish Seaside Resorts
The tradition of the seaside holiday first originated in the 19th century, aided by some discreet royal patronage. John Walton and Jenny Smith tell the story.
Mirror for the Century? Kitaj's Cecil Court
Richard Morphet ponders the relationship between individual biography and the historical tragedies of the 20th century as mediated via a leading Jewish artist.