Volume 52 Issue 4 April 2002

Simon Young reveals the limitations of oral legends as historical sources.

Catherine Roddam looks back at the first recordings of Italian tenor Enrico Caruso.

Gabriel Fawcett examines the controversy surrounding the Wehrmacht exhibition.

Jenny West looks at the role of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, founded by William Morris in 1877 to counteract the highly destructive 'restoration' of medieval buildings being practised by many Victorian architects.

Harold Perkin discusses the role of the extraction and distribution of surplus production in historical change, from Ancient Egypt to the 21st century.