Star-Gazers on the Move
Ann Hills on changes taking place at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Herstmonceux Castle.
History Today
Margery Kempe and the Meaning of Madness
'Living high above her bodily wits' - but was the 'madness' of a 15th-century English gentlewoman divine folly, marital stress or the stirrings of a self-conscious feminist?
The Revolution in South African Historiography
Iain R. Smith looks at the changes in the study of South Africa's past.
A New Heaven: Galileo and the Artists
Margaret M. Byard investigates the intriguing links between the astronomical discoveries of Galileo and the paintings of his Italian contemporaries.
Loosening the Bonds - Britain, Australia and the Second World War
'A painful lesson in international politics' - Anglo-Australian relations in the Second World War revealed the rhetoric of Empire not matched by a British commitment to Australia's defence.
Crime in Tudor and Stuart England
Timothy Curtis and J.A. Sharpe delve into the country's criminal past.
'The Light that Failed' - Australia and the Vietnam War
Glen Barclay considers how far Australian intervention in Vietnam marked a watershed in the country's willingness to send its troops abroad to fight for distant but powerful allies.
The English and Aborigines: The First Contacts
The first, uneasy, relationships between Europeans and Aborigines soon began to turn into outright hostilities, despite the well-meaning efforts of several Europeans.