Fontainebleau
Charles Giry-Deloison looks for the realpolitik behind the Renaissance splendours of Francis I's Fontainbleau.
History Today
Oil Wells That End Well
Ian Fitzgerald delves into the century-old archives of BP in Warwickshire.
The Reputation of Robert Cecil
Pauline Croft looks at how gossipy libel about sex, health and money hit the image of James I's chief minister.
The Peopling of Canada
Phillip Buckner looks at the characteristics of a double wave of colonisation between 1700 and 1900, which gave Canada its unique character.
The Macartney Embassy to China, 1792-94
Paul Gillingham looks at a kowtow fiasco and a failure in Anglo-Chinese understanding.
Women and the Nazi State
Hitler may have thought women were there for cooking, children and church, but recent research has shown that female attitudes to, and involvement in, the apparatus of the Third Reich was much more significant, argues Matthew Stibbe.
First World War Literature
A.D. Harvey reflects on why the Great War captured the literary imagination.
Making a Drama out of a Crisis
Stuart Hall on Victorian riots on stage
Norwich's Saxon Sprawl
Tony Aldous on the recent work of the Norfolk Archaeological Unit
Tibet's Part in the 'Great Game'
Why did the visit of a Buddhist holy man to Lhasa at the turn of the century throw the British Foreign Office into a state of paranoia? Helen Hundley explores the life and times of Agvan Dorjiev and the part he played in the Asian rivalry of Britain and Russia.