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Paul Dukes assesses the roles of the major statesmen from Britain, the USA and the USSR during the Second World War and the onset of the Cold War.

How the North won the American Civil War.

Stephen Roberts explodes a popular historical over-simplification.

Stewart Lone looks beyond the idea of the impassive, self-sacrificing citizen to discover how ordinary Japanese people really reacted to the war with Russia in 1904-05.

David Carpenter recalls the vanished world of the London docks in the 1950s.

Sebastian Walsh looks at a forgotten friend and adviser to Queen Elizabeth from the early years of her reign.

Alison Barnes reveals a new discovery about the Eddystone lighthouse: the first of its kind to be built on rocks in the sea.

Historian of suburbia Mark Clapson peers over the fences of Wisteria Lane to discover a fifty-year-old myth still at work.

Ralph Griffiths commemorates the recently deceased historian of medieval Wales and Britishness.

Richard Grayson reveals the human side to a wartime Cabinet minister’s personal tragedy.