Woman of influence whose mystique reveals a great chink in the historian's armour Cleopatra and Rome 6 January
Mysterious family affair on the dark fringes of the greatest empire the world had ever known The Middle East under Rome 6 January
Riotous turns in historical cliffhanger Gunpowder Plots - Remember, Remember the Fifth of November - Gunpowder 4 November
Victorian superman, ethnologist, sexologist and racist, Ipresume? The Highly Civilized Man 21 October
The virtue, victimhood and vital passions of our grandmothers Before Victoria - Mary Wollstonecraft 16 September
Know your superman from your sadist How to Read Darwin - How to Read Freud - How to Read Hitler - How to Read Nietzsche - How to Read Sade - How to Read Wittgenstein 9 September
Reminding us that we've never had it so good The Transformation of British Life 1950-2000 9 September
They faced the pit and the political pendulum Industrial Politics and the 1926 Mining Lockout: The Struggle for Dignity 19 August
'Pastimes' in private may have cost Anne her life Anne Boleyn - The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn 8 July
The panic wrought by the 'hammer of the heretics' Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution 8 July