Greenwich's Georgian Sandwich
Roger Knight looks at the National Maritime Museum's acquistion of the papers of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.
History Today
Chatham Revisited
Jeremy Black takes a fresh look at the career and reputation of the 'great outsider' of Hanoverian Britain.
Payment by Results Revisited?
Jackie Latham compares Victorian and current school inspection theories for history and other subjects
Too Much of 'A Good Thing'?
Trevor Fisher takes a fresh look at 1066 and All That and finds it a text for the times.
The Navajo Code Talkers and the Pacific War
During the Second World War, Navajo soldiers drafted into the Marines were much like ordinary recruits, with one exception: they were to create and use an unbreakable military code using their native language.
An All-Round Addition
Devon's sixteen-sided 'round house'
The Pity of War
John Crossland uncovers a conspiracy of silence from the records of Britain's First World War court-martial victims.
Hard Times?
Harvey Kaye cautions against too-hurried a dispatch of Marx's class and sociological insights to the 'dustbin of history'.