Names and Places
Oiled excavations at Tintagel
History Today
The 'White Canons' Rediscovered
Norman Bainbridge on springtime for Tupholme Abbey
The Unknown Hollywood
In the first two decades of the 20th century escapist fantasy was not the sole diet offered to American audiences by the emerging film industry. Steven Ross relates the mixture of social realism and biting political commentary that inspired both filmmakers and reformers to the silver screen in the Progressive era.
Jan Hus - Heretic or Patriot?
'Truth will conquer' - the Czech historian Frantisek Smahel traces the life and work of his 15th-century compatriot Jan Hus - whose uncompromising criticism of medieval Catholicism stirred national pride and acted as a forerunner of the Reformation.
lmagine that you are Erasmus... Rabelais...Queen Victoria...Karl Marx...
A Rosemary O'Day on imagining you're Erasmus and ways of seeing 1450-1600.
Post-Victorian?
Stephen Jones on Victorian things, trends and fashions.
The Search for Uncle Sam
New Hampshire meat-packer to national symbol - Alton Ketchum recounts the rise and rise of Uncle Sam Wilson.
King John's Maundy
England's royal black sheep may well turn out to be the instigator of the ancient ceremony linking Church and Crown. Arnold Kellett explains how this came about.
Before the Wheel
Nicholas Russell on environment lessons from development history