Volume 48 Issue 3 March 1998

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of a very suspicious death, on March 10th, 1948

The illustrator and author died on March 16th, 1898.

Courtier, soldier, explorer, colonist, scholar, family man, libertine: in his life Elizabeth's favourite played many parts, and posterity has accentuated each according to the needs of the time, as Robert Lawson-Peebles explains.

The legendary figure of the Wild West was born on 19 March 1848.

Kit Wedd gives an account of the winners from History Today's 1997 history writing awards.