History Today
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
Phoenix Rising
Damien Gregory explores jerry-building at Hampton Court