Volume 50 Issue 2 February 2000

The city of Ghent in modern Belgium, birthplace of Charles V, is currently celebrating the 500th anniversary of his birth on February 24th, 1500.

Sean Lang describes the changes in college history since the sixties and deplores the trend towards Hitler-dominated history.

Charles II's mistress was born on February 2nd, 1650.

The radical Italian thinker was burned at the stake on February 17th, 1600.

R.C. Macleod re-tells the story of the force that began by policing the Klondike and ended by spying on separatists and 'subversives'.

Timothy Benson analyses the evolution of the love-hate relationship between Britain's greatest cartoonist and the outstanding politician of the age.