History in the present
The Last Führer: among the Nazi war leaders tried at Nuremberg, Hitler's successor Admiral Doenitz, received the lightest sentence of all. Now new research suggests Doenitz was far more deeply implicated in the atrocities of the Third Reich than previously imagined.
'They be Evil People': was how British newspapers described the Russians in the late 17th century. A cautionary tale of how Englishmen in the 1720s feared Tsar Peter the Great planned to conquer the world.
The Cult of the Dead: how different were medieval attitudes towards death from our own today? The wills and funeral expenses of the 16th century help provide an answer.
Executive producer TIMOTHY GARDAM Editor BRUCE NORMAN