Monkey doodle dandy?
Monkey Painting
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It's been a dog's life this century
Progress and Barbarism
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Obscure orbits of Soviet stars
Korolev - Starman
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Outsiders' insights
Out of the Third Reich
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Pure science, no apologies
Peace and War
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Great bad bottom fetishist?
The Napoleonic Wars 1803-15 - Napoleon
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Pot shot at Elizabeth's sea-dog
Sir Francis Drake
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Power dressing
Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire
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Victorian nosology deciphered
An Atlas of Victorian Mortality
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The words made flesh
The Day-Star of Liberty
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel set in the American civil war, whose author died of TB, aged 28: The cold passed reluctantly...
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Are historians to be trusted?
Historical Controversies and Historians
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A history of great Gregorys
The Conversion of Europe - Gregory the Great and his World
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Digging for Levellers, Ranters and Quakers
England's Turning Point - Liberty against the Law
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A land of pride and prejudice
Colonial Indology