The Rise and Fall of the Tower of London
A place to inspire visions of secret prisoners, torture and the axe - but the reality was less blood-soaked and more varied. Geoffrey Parnell chronicles the fortunes of the capital's royal fortress.
History Today
Trinity College, Dublin: 1592-1992
Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland celebrates its 400th anniversary in 1992. John McGurk discusses the history of the college, set up for the cultivation of virtue and religion.
Peel and the Tory Party Reconsidered
David Eastwood considers how the myth of the great statesman, who put country and Corn Law Reform before partisan advantage, is standing up in the light of modern scholarship.
War and the English Gentry Under Edward III
Andrew Ayton analyses why Englishmen went off to fight in France in the Hundred Years' War, and elsewhere.
Marxism and Modern India
Dipesh Chakrabarty looks at the dialogue between nationalism and the inspiration of Marx in the formation of the world's largest democracy.
A Lost Common Wealth
John MacKenzie on the role and future of Commonwealth House
Ale Tales
Margaret Ballard considers the research of the Brewery History Society
In Search of Europe
Mia Rodriguez-Salgado goes in search of an idea that has puzzled people from Charlemagne to Adenauer.
Nineteenth Century Hidden Agendas
Dorothy Thompson looks at the impact of revisionism and triumphalism on tales of solidarity and struggle from the society of the Industrial Revolution.
Louis XII: Medieval King or Renaissance Monarch?
A ruler in transition - Howell Lloyd looks at the icons of power that masked the face of French kingship around 1500.