Obedience, modesty, taciturnity – all hallmarks of the archetypal 'good woman' in colonial New England, But did suffering in silence invert tradition and give the weaker sex a new moral authority in the community? Martha Saxton investigates, in the first piece from a mini series examining women's social experience in the New World.
Warwick Bray on a new illustrated edition of a colonial 'Domesday Book' for the Aztec world.
Cecilia O'Leary looks at how national identity was repaired following the fratricidal traumas of the American Civil War.
Omer Bartov traces the impact of people's armies from Napoleon to the First World War and beyond.
How the Livery companies of London prepare to show they are ready for the millennium
E. Hall looks at the methods used in ancient Greece to court public opinion in the light of the modern media and messages of democratic politics today.
Were the 'barbarians' who shored up Rome's armies and frontiers the empire's salvation or doom?
Eric Evans looks at the industrial and economic backdrop to the developments of Britain's Welfare State.
Richard Cavendish visits True's Yard folk museum and heritage centre in Norfolk.
We may all know about Nefertiti, but what was life like for the less-famous women of ancient Egypt? Joyce Tyldesley describes the restraints and freedoms operating on daughters of Isis.
