Decoding history
How can we be sure about things which happened so long ago? If living memory is fallible, where can we draw our view of the past?
Who shoots?
Have you ever wondered why a piece of film was made and what it was intended to convey to you? Douglas Allen considers what goes on behind the camera.
Screening the past
Seeing is believing …or is it? It takes a sceptical approach to use film as history.
A mirror and a record
From Love On The Dole to My Beautiful Laundrette, film has reflected and engaged the values of our culture. Unspool the links between film and society.
This nation's saving place
The British Museum has always maintained a worldwide perspective and has brought understanding and wonder to the public for the past 250 years.
Museum pieces
Founded in 1753, the history of the British Museum is one of continuous expansion and striving for space. As fascinating as their contents, explore museum history.
Aspic or celebration?
How did the cabinets of curiosities brought back from the voyages of discovery of the 16th and 17th centuries lead to the rise of museums?
The past lives again
Find fascinating industrial sites near you - refer to our heritage centres guide.
Tales told in brick and stone
Become fluent in the language of architecture, interpret stonework and discover what buildings tell us about the lives of our ancestors by reading architecture.
The unquiet settlement
History surrounds us, often unnoticed. Raise your eyes to view your street, town or city name and unravel the imprint left during Roman or Anglo-Saxon times by reading cities, towns and villages.
Walls have voices
Who lived in your house before you? How and why has your house been changed and who changed it? Look for the clues and discover the history of your home.
CSI: History
A crime scene, a victim and mounting evidence. A familiar scene from a TV detective series, but how do you solve a murder thousands of years old? Discover evidence of the science behind the forensics.
The census of the century
Compiled over 1,000 years ago, there are still stories to be discovered in the Domesday Book.
Duty recalls
The rank and file can be connected with as easily as the top brass if you examine military records.
Ecumenical matters
For centuries the church literally put the fear of God into people's hearts - and kept track of them, generating valuable church records.
This land is whose land?
Bethany Hughes follows a trail of documents cataloguing battles and negotiations over the ownership and use of land.
A new look at the High Street
We've expanded and revised our guide to the everyday clues to the past. Explore the new High Street History.
Talking history
Sex, power, religion: There was a lot to pack in, as you'll hear in our Robert Bartlett interview.
Romans to Warrington via The Mary Rose
Paul Hatherley travels to Cheshire to report on the latest innovations in heritage science.
Timewatch at Stonehenge
Timewatch are currently taking part in the first archaeological dig at Stonehenge for fifty years. Follow the dig online, and share your views.
Content last updated: 22/02/2006
