Agesilaos & the Crisis of Sparta
Though hymned by writers as an exemplum of Sparta's virtue, was Agesilaos the author as well as the spectator of her decline and fall?
History Today
Braudel, the Historian as Dramatist
Cometh the hour, cometh the man - is this the secret of Braudel's fame as the Victor Hugo of French history?
History is Bunkers
Tony Thorncroft on the sale of golfing memorabilia.
Elizabethan America: 'God's Own Latitude?'
'In the beginning, America was in the way'. Only slowly did 16th-century Englishmen turn from the chimera of a short-cut to Asia's riches to the vision of precious metals to be mined and colonies planted in the New World.
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.
A Patriot for Whom? Colonel Redl and a question of Identity
Alan Sked looks at the sensational leaking of Austrian military secrets to Russia on the eve of the First World War.
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.
The Road to a Popular Front
Helen Graham on the political coalitions in Spain in the 1930s and their role in blocking Fascism.
Spain 1936: From Coup d'Etat to Civil War
Paul Preston follows the unsettled road leading to the clash between the Republicans and Nationalists.
The Renaissance in National Context
Three texts dealing with the transition from the Renaissance to the Modern Age