History Today

We ask 20 questions of leading historians on why their research matters, one book everyone should read and their views on historical drama …

Four historians consider whether the experience of the pandemic has changed their views on the nature of historical crises.

A Victorian homage to a Renaissance master became one of the world’s most reproduced images. 

Even in a pastoral idyll, there is death.

‘Timing is everything.’

Four distinguished scholars consider a historical question of enormous contemporary resonance. 

It is among the most commercial as well as maligned fields of history. Four distinguished scholars consider its value – and its future. 

‘Classics is the playing field for some very important questions.’

Holbein the Younger’s image still startles 500 years after its creation.

 ‘Human nature always remains the same.’