Potter's Museum of Curiosity
Richard Cavendish muses on the 'stuffed' of history in the animal kingdom in Bodmin Moor.
History Today
Good Friends and Brothers? Francis I and Henry VIII
Glenn Richardson profiles the French king's relationship with Henry VIII and the cultural PR and diplomacy that went with it.
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.
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.