Barnaby Crowcroft on oil * Gillian Tindall on British tourism through the ages * Robert Colls on Blake and Parry's 'Jerusalem' * David Wheatley on Basil Bunting's letters * Claudia FitzHerbert on Roald Dahl * Lucy Hughes-Hallett on Henrietta Maria * James Gow on the Chagos Islands * David Anderson on digital freedom * Jonathan Sumption on the Black Death * Thomas Shippey on the middle ages on screen * David Gelber on the history of British Rail * Theo Zenou on immortality * Suzi Feay on Jim Crace * Jude Cook on Irvine Welsh * and much, much more