History Today

Archaeologists and historians are on the same side, despite what journalists say.

Empires have been part of human history for millennia. Are they, of necessity, a bad thing?

An intimate understanding of John Buchan with a scholarly reading of the immense mass of his papers

Nicholas Hilliard was a portraitist at the pinnacle of his profession.

Christian thinkers whose lives and thoughts connected in 1943, when it looked like the Allies were on top and minds turned to the future.

What connects a Hollywood star, a physicist of genius and a recently departed historian?

This episode examines the Nazi genocide through human interactions with three crime scenes.

Not content with bringing aqueducts, sanitation and roads, the Romans transformed Britain’s flora and fauna.

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‘What’s the most important lesson history has taught me? It’s not about you.’