Douglas v Nixon - A Campaign on the Conscience
Ingrid Scobie tells the story of the infamous 1950 campaign that set Richard Nixon on his path to the White House, and ended the political career of his remarkable woman opponent, Helen Douglas.
History Today
Conserving Estonia in the New Europe
Merlin Waterson looks at how the newly-independent Estonia is recovering its heritage.
After the End of History
Alan Ryan discusses what happens when history comes to an end
Electing Oswestry's MP, 1901
John Biffen reflects on the by-election campaign that elected one of his predecessors from Shropshire to the House of Commons.
Upstairs Downstairs
Tony Aldous discusses the work of the English Historic Towns Forum
John Buchan Society
Richard Cavendish on an association dedicated to the MP, publisher, soldier, Christian and governor-general of Canada
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.