Monkey Puzzle
Hugh Miles assesses the significance of the Piltdown hoax.
Volume 53 Issue 10 October 2003
End of the Hundred Years War
The succession of conflicts known as the Hundred Years War ended on October 19th, 1453, when Bordeaux surrendered, leaving Calais as the last English possession in France.
Blacks in Tudor England
Marika Sherwood reveals the state of our knowledge – and ignorance – about a period of our multi-racial past.
Filming the First World War
Jonathan Lewis and Hew Strachan point out the daunting challenges and exciting opportunities involved in producing a new major TV series.
Our Friends from the East: Russian Revolutionaries and British Radicals, 1852-1917
John Slatter celebrates the far-ranging contributions of Russian political émigrés to British life in the half-century before 1917.