Your Guide reviews this bumper box of DVDs about Napoleonic war hero Richard Sharpe. Please note: this was not simply an excuse for me to watch the whole 14 episodes...again.

Marty Wingate's article 'Shedding light on plant history' seems unrelated to European history at first, but when you consider the issues he begins to raise – how plants have developed ... Read More

The world of conspiracy theory and World War 2 journalism is full of plans by high-ranking Nazi's to escape 'somewhere', with Brazil and a secret base under the Arctic all ... Read More

This fascinating article in National Geographic covers the 127 women given accreditation by the US government during the Second World War, including Margaret Bourke-White, the only non-Russian photojournalist in Moscow ... Read More

I read in the Boston Globe Online – and I have absolutely no evidence to support this – that the first recorded 'Christmas Tree' was decorated in Riga, Latvia in ... Read More

Buoyed by the arrest of Saddam Hussein, a British tabloid recently published an article about the main dictators of the twentieth century in order to show "how they got their ... Read More

A review of this fantastic new magazine from your Guide. (Does that give the conclusion away?)

While plans to dig up a possible English king have been blocked (see below), there are no such problems in Florence where experts will exhume fifty members of Europe's Medici ... Read More

The plans of archaeologists and the staff of All Saints church in Bosham have been quashed by the local diocese: experts wanted to excavate a tomb found in 1954 beneath ... Read More

Many of America's coastal regions have legends dating from the Second World War, often involving German U-Boats and the clandestine activities of their crews. In Maine, it’s long been rumoured ... Read More

Although there are far more films and documentaries about the second World War than the first, viewers can still enjoy a range of quality movies and historical programs. Of course, ... Read More

This article concerns how modern US historical textbooks are distorting unpalatable truths about World War II and, while the content doesn't directly relate to European History, the issues and questions ... Read More

The Vinland Map could show that the Vikings sailed to, and mapped, the continent we now call North America, evidence of Euro-American interaction from 1000 years ago. Or it could ... Read More