Volume 45 Issue 9 September 1995

David Birmingham looks at how the invented traditions of 19th-century Swiss history cemented a sense of national identity.

Abigail Beach looks at constructing communities in the first half of the century

Cathy Mercer reconstructs a wonder of the ancient world

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto argues for a new world history for the Millennium

F.Bremer and E.Rydell examine the tricks used by preachers in 17th-century England and America to hold their audiences.

Exhibitions of African art and culture

Pierre Sorlin considers Visconti's treatment of the 19th-century Italian nobility caught up in the Risorgimento

Iain Fenlon explores how Catholic Europe's great 16th-century sea victory over the Turk was celebrated and propagandised.

Christopher Innocent on ancient Australian burial sites.

Penny Johnston on a campaign to rebuild a historic Canadian church.