Volume 55 Issue 4 April 2005

A Dictionary of the English Language was first published on 15 April 1755.

Jack Lohman, Director of the Museum of London, explains the significance of two Victorian paintings and why the Museum is delighted to have been able to acquire them.

The two halves of the railway tunnel linking Switzerland and Italy met on April 2nd, 1905.

David Nicholas suggests that America’s involvement in northern Europe was unwittingly shaped by a British War Office official, against the wishes of the President.