A Bestowal for Stowe
Tony Aldous explores the pleasures of Stowe's 18th-century landscape gardens
History Today
Otto III and the Historians
Around the year 1000, a teenage emperor in the centre of Europe embarked on a rapprochement with his eastern neighbours employing the language and kudos of a vanished imperial Rome as part of his diplomatic offensive. Timothy Reuter looks at a remarkable episode and the use and abuse made of it subsequently by German historians and propagandists.
Mining the Past
Ann Hills on Cornwall's mining legacy
Coffee House Lobbying
Alison Olson looks at the role London coffee houses played from the Restoration onwards in providing the setting for the small groups of merchants trading with the American colonies to defend their interests.
Napoleon in Russia: Saviour or Anti-Christ?
Janet Hartley discusses the mixed responses of Russia's populations to Napoleon's great gamble on an invasion and the part they played in the eventual French catastrophe.
Preserving Lizzie
The problems surrounding the discovery of an ancient reptile fossil and its wider implications for cultural heritage.
Robert Knox's Anatomy of Race
Susan Collinson dissects the life and ideas of the brilliant nineteenth-century anatomist who developed a biological theory of race, but whose career was clouded by controversy.
Washington's Whitehall: The Old Executive Office Building
Aram Bakshian delves into the annexe of Presidents in Washington DC