Europe

In the first of our mini-series on the Nazis and social culture, Lisa Pine looks at how lessons in the classroom were perverted in the service of the Third Reich.

John Dunne follows historians along the trail signposted by Geyl fifty years ago.

Robert Pearce distributes a survival kit for the most hazardous causation question of all.

Martin Pugh charts the Women's Movement's origins and growth 1850-1939.

'All roads lead to Rome' – tribute to a phenomenon that held a world empire together. But who built them and how were they planned and maintained? Logan Thompson tells us more.

Fools' gold, Dr Faustus - traditional images of a Renaissance black art. But was there more to it than that? Zbigniew Szydlo and Richard Brzezinski offer an intriguing rehabilitation.

Malcolm Crook takes a fresh look at the eighteenth-century alliance between philosophers and kings.

Presentation of the past as a seed-bed of modernity gives it bogus relevance to modern concerns. Two hundred and fifty years after the battle of Culloden Jeremy Black looks at a classic instance – the military challenge of the Jacobites.

The Eternal City was captured after a year-long siege on December 17th, 546.

From pigeon post to the Internet - Dagmar Lorenz on how the communications revolution has produced the global village.