Scholarship and the Swastika: The Politics of Research in Occupied Poland
Michael Burleigh investigates how academia was pressed into service to legitimise Nazi imperialism in the conquered East.
History Today
Border Ways and Border Warfare
Anthony Goodman looks into the Scottish border culture.
Renewing the Rust-Belt
Tony Aldous looks at the redevelopment of the city of Lowell in America.
1066 and all that Revised
Cultural cataclysm or merely a modification of an Anglo-Saxon status quo? Antonia Gransden looks at views, past and present, of the Norman conquest.
From Britannia to Maggie: The Fall and Rise of John Bull's Descendants
Roy T Matthews and Peter Mellini argue that the last 100 years have brought mixed fortunes for Britain’s family of national symbols.
A Shadow of Secession? The Hartford Convention, 1814
A separatist assembly of Federalist New England at the height of war-weariness provided precedence and philosophy for future defiance of the Union.
Alexander the Great's Little Star
Frank L. Holt looks at the legends and realities of Alexander's bride from Central Asia, the world she lived in and the power struggles that ensnared her.
A Penny For Your Thoughts
Alexander Johnson on how changes in the Manpower Services Commission will impact on state-run projects.