Greece, Ancient and Modern - Subsistence and Survival
'Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose'... many of the agricultural practices described in the art and literature of classical Greece persist to the present day.
History Today
Barricades against Fascism: The Popular Front in Europe
Paul Preston and Helen Graham discuss the tension developing in the Europe of the 30s as the Left attempted to unite against the growth of Fascism and the bloody timetable of political collapse, uprisings and mutiny that transformed a half-successful coup d'etat into a protracted civil war.
China and World History
Paul Dukes interprets the heritage of China in the context of global history
Second Thoughts on the Anglo-Portugese Alliance 1661-1808
Port wine and a queen for England from Braganza - commercial and cultural links strengthened the alliance steadily during the Age of Reason.
John of Gaunt: Portugal's Kingmaker
John of Gaunt's dynastic ambitions coincided with the urgent need of the Portuguese Crown for foreign support to secure its sovereign independence - the catalyst for a royal marriage and England's oldest alliance.
'Doing Something for Women': Matthew Vassar & Thomas Holloway
Caroline Bingham tells the tale of how two self-made businessmen in their seventies became the unlikely progenitors of pioneering womens' colleges in Victorian England and America.
'A Particular Service' - Beresford's Peninsular War
Resistance to Napoleon in the Iberian peninsula gave a little-known English general a unique opportunity to remould the Portuguese army.
Anglo-Portuguese Relations Since 1900
World wars, dictatorship and the tensions of empire tested, but not to breaking point, the alliance in the twentieth century. Tom Gallagher outlines how economic and strategic considerations made Portugal a focus for Allied concern in the Second World War.
The Portuguese Voyages of Discovery
Helen Wallis charts the Portugal's astonishing success in voyages of exploration between 1415 and 1520