The New Look of Prudhoe Castle
Stephen Johnson discusses the opening of an 11th century castle in Northumberland.
Stephen Johnson discusses the opening of an 11th century castle in Northumberland.
Ann Hills explores the impact on various eras of history of the mines of the Nenthead area.
Brian Holden Reid recounts his own experiences of great military events. their literature, political significance and memory.
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?
Cometh the hour, cometh the man - is this the secret of Braudel's fame as the Victor Hugo of French history?
Tony Thorncroft on the sale of golfing memorabilia.
'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.
'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.
Alan Sked looks at the sensational leaking of Austrian military secrets to Russia on the eve of the First World War.
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.