England

Joad Raymond on a previously unpublished insight into the personality and projection of 'Lord Oliver' during Britain's unique 1650s experience.

Alex Barker discusses St Augustine's Abbey Museum.

Richard Cavendish describes the launch of the Second Crusade on May 19th, 1147.

Pawn of elder statesmen or, as Matthew Christmas argues, another Henry VIII in the making?

Richard Wilkinson argues that Cromwell had what it took to rule Britain but failed to achieve his own idealistic programme.

Greg Walker challenges the view that court intrigue, favourites, 'new men' and new manners took root under the Tudor monarch.

Richard Cavendish explores a quantity of bygones in the museum of social history.

Richard Cavendish visits one of the most evocative regimental museums in the country.

Elizabeth van Houts reconstructs memories of occupation (with echoes of the 1940s) from post-Norman conquest chronicles.