History Today

Throughout the centuries countless libraries and carefully curated book collections have been dispersed, destroyed or lost.

Tall tales of Pompeii’s lost Roman lives form part of a long history of sensationalism.

‘No historical record is an unmediated window into the past.’

The medieval parish church was the meeting point of many different things, both sacred and secular.

The cross-dressing saga of the Queen of Lydia and the most formidable of Classical heroes.

After the death of Harold on 14 October 1066, Edgar Ætheling’s claim to the throne gained support.

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, was obsessed with falconry. This led him to write a truly revolutionary book on the subject.

How did women experience warfare in early medieval Britain?

E.H. Carr’s belief that the histories we get depend on the questions we ask is more relevant than ever.

Britain’s obscenity trials and censorship laws.