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Stand Up and Be Counted

Mark Steel, stand-up comedian and presenter of history on television and radio, describes how punk rock helped politicise a generation, and whet his own appetite for enquiring about the past.

The People's War

Juliet Gardiner investigates two new books on wartime society in Britain during the Second World War.

Sydney Rock Art

Samantha Mattila reports on the discovery of valuable new additions to Sydney’s rock art.

Trench Art

Nicholas J. Saunders explores the ways in which humans make art from objects of death, in conflicts spanning the Napoleonic to Bosnian Wars.

The Ideal of Unity

Russell Chamberlin examines the origins and development of Europe’s persistent vision of unity from the birth of the Holy Roman Empire to its fall.

The Shrine of Islam’s Tragic Divisions

Corinne Atkins examines the events in Iraq in the 7th century AD, which precipitated the first and only great division of Islam, the ramifications of which are seen today in Iraq and more widely.

The Great Storm

The week-long hurricane that struck the south of England and the English Channel on November 24th, 1703, was beyond anything in living memory.