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Tim Benson, founder of the Political Cartoon Society, introduces his ten favourite cartoons published in Britain.

David Anderson looks at the contentious issues raised as Kenya comes to terms with the colonial past.

Winston Churchill wrote history with an eye to his eventual place in it, David Reynolds tells us. His idea of history also inspired his making of it.

In his latest article about today’s historians, Daniel Snowman meets the creator of some of the finest TV history programmes, including Auschwitz, currently being shown on BBC2.

Adrian Mourby reveals the thinking behind the new Turks exhibition at the Royal Academy.

Rhoads Murphey reflects on a thousand years of Turkic cultural development.

Judy Urquhart recalls a forgotten use of Colditz Castle after the end of the Second World War – as a prison for German aristocrats.

Robin Milner-Gulland reviews a new title which explores the history, cultures, and politics of the Black Sea area.

Julie Rugg reports on recent research done into official attitudes towards burial during the Blitz.

Tamerlane, or Timur, one of history's most brutal butchers, died on 18 February 1405.