History Today

The strangeness of the past can be evoked more effectively in pick and mix fantasies than in those novels, films and TV dramas that aspire to realism, argues Suzannah Lipscomb.

Chris Wrigley explores the hugely beneficial impact of the First World War on the British tobacco industry and looks at how smoking became an approved symbol of comradeship and patriotism.

Roger Hudson takes a roadside view of the automobiles about to embark on the arduous, 22,000-mile journey.

The turmoil in Ukraine has a strong religious dimension. Catherine Wanner asks if a common Christian heritage may yet help maintain relations with its Russian neighbour.

Mother, sister, wife and lover and part of the Roman elite, Agrippina the Younger sought to escape the restrictions imposed on her sex.

Henry V's right-hand man was made Archbishop on April 27th, 1414.

The society lady was born in Piccadily on April 23rd, 1814.

The Irish ruler met a bloody fate on 23 April 1014.

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.