Volume 52 Issue 11 November 2002

Taylor Downing recalls the BBC series The Great War.

T.A. Jenkins discusses the political career of the Iron Duke.

Historians have famously been divided into parachutists and truffle-hunters. M.R.D. Foot explains how he began his careeer as a real parachutist in the SAS.

Anubha Charan reports on the latest findings from the Gulf of Cambay.

Entries describing the objects kept and used in the principal rooms of Henry VIII’s household.

Austin Woolrych reflects on how historians’ approaches to the events of 1640-60 have been changing over the half century that he has been working on the period.

John Klier reviews Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s recent venture into the history of his native country.

As the Museum of London launches its new Prehistory Gallery, its recently appointed Director, Jack Lohman, gives us his perspective on the challenges of bringing the distant past to life. Mr Lohman, a born Londoner, joined the Museum in August, moving from South Africa where he was responsible for developing a common vision for the country’s fifteen national museums.