Volume 58 Issue 4 April 2008

The civil rights leader was shot dead on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel on April 4th, 1968.

Patricia Cleveland-Peck visits the capital of French Canada which is celebrating its 400th birthday this year

In 1908 the Olympic movement visited Britain for the first time. Stephen Halliday describes how the British Olympic Association prepared for the Games with barely two years notice.

Geoffrey Tyack remembers the renowned architectural historian who died on December 27th, 2007.

Sue Donnelly introduces the archives of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and a project to make them accessible to a wider audience.

Continental chefs dominated London’s restaurant world in the nineteenth century, says Panikos Panayi.