From the Editor

Historiography is one of the essential tools for unlocking the past. Without it, history is a bloodless pursuit. 

History on television is long overdue a radical rethink.

A letter from the editor on History Today's first special edition of the 1990s and its synergy with the recent fall of the Berlin Wall.

Paul Lay remembers a historian who was never afraid of engaging with the public.

After decades of advance, democracy in Europe has begun to look curiously vulnerable.

History Today welcomes its seventh Editor to the magazine.