Dedicated followers of fashion – or senders of coded messages via the doublet, codpiece and hose? Lois Banner mounts an intriguing investigation of how male clothing reflected changing images of power, gender and sexuality in medieval Europe.
Details of a new exhibition on Pompeii in London
John Miller asks historians why, and for whom, they write.
Ian Fitzgerald on the precarious state of some listed buildings.
John Powell on the colourful life of a Whig minister
Richard Cavendish looks at the wide-ranging interests of The Georgian Group
Peter Laslett discusses how the Continent's 'happy families' have changed dramatically since the War.
The rebel yell that dispelled hopes of a quick Union victory – Brian Holden Reid looks at the battle that set the scene for the American Civil War's protracted and bloody conflict.
Keith Nurse explores the excavations of recently-discovered Roman remains
Bryan Palmer looks at the dialogue between Marxism, class struggle and working-class identity in the changing fortunes of working-class history in North America and beyond.
