Military

Has Britain been de-industrialising since 1945? Robert Millward weighs up the evidence for and against - with some surprising conclusions.

Frank Nowikowski investigates missing paintings mysteriously found after the Second World War.

Sir Alan Harris recalls the role of the artificial harbours in securing victory in Europe over the Nazis.

David Ellwood looks at the past precedents for 'movie' wars between America and Europe

Were art and religion inevitable victims of war? David Colvin and Richard Hodges discuss the action and the issues it raised - including testimony from a surviving witness from the monastic community.

Richard Pflederer on the technological and cartographical advances of the early modern naval powers of Holland and England

An absurd procession of chivalry or mad mass charges? Analysis of fighting in the Middle Ages has become more subtle than either of these scenarios, argues Sean McGlynn.

Andrew Robinson looks at the 1915 uproar about a speech on 'Christian Charity' towards Germany which cost the headmaster of Britain's most famous public school his job.

A.D. Harvey reflects on why the Great War captured the literary imagination.