Commodity passports -- Reformation station -- Renaissance murder mystery -- Italian Renaissance art detective -- Galileo's revolutions -- Enlightenment jail -- Whose Revolution? Equal rights, citizenship, and the French Revolution -- Running your factory the capitalist way : Manchester, 1800 -- The British Ladies' Charitable Visiting Society -- Nationalism in fin-de-siecle, Bohemia -- London maps -- Heart of darkness : investigating the crimes of the Congo -- Paris Peace Conference -- Weimar political speed dating -- Fun with 1920s avant-garde art -- Winston Churchill and Arthur Harris : war criminals? -- Planning the postwar city -- Absurdistan -- "Beauty is in the streets" : revolution in Paris, 1968 -- Running your factory the socialist way : Bratislava, 1980 -- Texts from home : growing up between Algeria and France