John Buchan Society
Richard Cavendish on an association dedicated to the MP, publisher, soldier, Christian and governor-general of Canada
History Today
Beveridge's Trojan Horse
Harriet Jones assesses the historic blueprint for Britain's post-war Welfare State and what part it played in Labour's 1945 election landslide victory.
Allinson's Staff of Life - Health Without Medicine in the 1890s
Sarah Pepper investigates a medical pioneer whose name survives today on a bread wrapper, but whose sweeping system of wholefoods and natural prescriptions offended the medical establishment of late Victorian England.
From Prussia with Love
Kenneth Asch on Berlin's opera house, the Deutsche Staatsoper.
Australia's Convict Origins - Myth and History
Ball-and-chain nationhood: Brian Fletcher chronicles the ambiguities Australians have felt over the years towards the nation's 'Founding Fathers'.
Hitler and the Rhineland, 1936 - A Decisive Turning-Point
Hitler's march into the demilitarised Rhineland heralded Churchill's 'gathering storm' – but could the Fuhrer's bluff have been called and the Second World War prevented? Sir Nicholas Hederson, who as Britain's ambassador in Washington during the Falklands crisis saw diplomatic poker eventually turn to war, offers a reassessment of the events of 1936.
Is God Dead? Irreligion and the Masses, 1870-1914
A mission to the heathen? Hugh MacLeod looks at working-class attitudes towards organised Christianity in fin de siecle Berlin and other urban centres.
The Cuban Missile Crisis - 30 years on
Brian Dooley assesses the incident which brought the world perilously close to nuclear war.
Cash for Historic Landscapes
Ann Hills on the management schemes of the Countryside Commission
California's Spanish Missions
Louis Kleber tells the story of how a small group of Spanish friars dotted the west coast of America with outposts of their impact on the native populations they co-opted into their settlement.