On 4th April 1944, Anne Frank wrote, 'I want to go on living even after my death!' Four months later, she and her family left for a concentration camp after capture by the Gestapo, and she died from typhus at Bergen-Belsen in March 1945, aged fifteen years.
In his actions and writings, Churchill made General Mackesy the scapegoat for the allied failure to recapture Norway in 1940. Was this a fair assessment? And why did Churchill pursue the cause with such bitterness? Mackesy's son explains.
Charles Townshend evaluates the judgement of General Gordon and the ill-fated British mission in the Sudan.
Gillian Goodwin on traditional recipes for Lent.
A new form of antiquarianism? Celebrating experience at the expense of analysis? Seven leading historians seek to define social history.
It is remarkable how quickly a region, whose peoples shared a long history and many aspects of culture, can be forgotten.
Kathleen Burk looks at the recent history weekend organised at Long Wittenham, a village of less than a thousand residents on the River Thames in south Oxfordshire.
Good quotes are rare in the history of science. The striking utterances which scientists have managed to produce are often over-used.
Museums are getting increasingly self-conscious about the artificialities they embody. Even if they can stave off the claim that objects collected through wealth and conquest ought to be sent home again they are showing more recognition that taking things from their original settings destroys an important part of their meaning.
