History Today

The military potential of unmanned flying ‘drones’ is well known. But what about their use in archaeology?

There are striking parallels between state survelliance in the Tudor age and today.

London’s oldest extant market is celebrating its millennium.

The notorious malady of the 18th century is on the increase in the UK.

John Logie Baird's early television set is beset by some familiar criticism.

“It is time that the abuse of his enemies should be appreciated in its true light, and not accepted as impartial history merely because they happened to be distinguished men.” By Theodore Zeldin.

Stella Margetson describes how, with the single-mindedness of a devoted artist, John Palmer revolutionized the transport system of the British Isles.

P.M. Holt depicts 'an organized revolutionary movement... resulting in the establishment of a territorial Islamic state'.

Many German professional soldiers, writes F.L. Carsten, were staunch opponents of the Nazi regime.

In 1862 a Japanese official mission visited England, nine years after the re-opening of their country to the world. Carmen Blacker describes how their strange attire and ‘inscrutable reticence’ surprised the mid-Victorian public.