June 2009 – Volume 10 - No 6

Crusaders on trial
Why did the British Knights Templar avoid the fiery punishments that awaited their colleagues on the continent?

D-Day
Sixty-five years after the Normandy landings, we talk to the world's bestselling military historian about the Allied invasion of France.

Thomas Paine: English villain, American hero
The man whose writings fueled the American Revolution was regularly burnt in effigy on the other side of the Atlantic.

Cat and mouse: force feeding suffragettes
Hunger strikes were a potent weapon in the suffragettes' arsenal but they elicited a brutal response from the authorities.

Victorian dog shows
How 19th-century Britons fell in love with four-legged festivals - but not without fears concerning animal welfare.

Fred Perry: the icon and outcast
The last male British tennis player to win Wimbledon never achieved great popularity at home.