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Anne-Marie Kilday and Katherine Watson explore 18th-century child killers, their motivations and contemporary attitudes towards them.

Richard L. Pflederer visits the site of the first short-lived English colony in Maine set up in competition with Jamestown in Virginia, and considers a remarkable map of it drawn by one of the colonists.

Len Scales considers the complex role of martial skill in the development of national identity in the Middle Ages.

Benedict King pays personal tribute to a great historian and teacher.

Dorothy Wordsworth died on January 25th, 1855, aged eighty-four.

The Founding Father was born on 11 January 1755.

Bill Putnam and John Edwin Wood peel away the evidence to find an extraordinary hoax at the heart of Dan Brown’s bestselling novel.

Robert Carr traces developments in British policy between 1917 and 1956.

Robert Pearce seeks to provoke thought on the origins of a momentous election result.

Jonathan Lewis takes issue with a common interpretation.