History Today

Simon de Montfort was an active commander in Gascony. William Seymour describes how, in 1264-5, the Anglo-Norman nobleman fought his two vital English battles at Lewes and Evesham.

After Hannibal’s defeat by Scipio Africanus, writes Zvi Yavetz, Carthage tried for some fifty years to live in peace with Rome.

J.J.N. McGurk profiles Roger Bacon; a 13-century Franciscan, with a reputation as a necromancer, who showed a remarkable combination at Oxford and in Paris of philosophic and scientific gifts.

Minna F. Weinstein profiles the last Queen of Henry VIII; a Protestant of learning who helped to determine the religious future of England.

J.J.N. McGurk describes the life and times of a controversial philosopher of the early twelfth century.

M.L. Ryder describes the use of skins for writing material from about 2000 B.C. in Egypt down to recent times.

David Woodward describes insurrection in the Austro-Hungarian fleet on February 1st, 1918.

David Lance on the history of food in the Royal Navy, from canteen messing to professional catering.

Timothy Wilson Smith describes how, in the year 878, Alfred witnessed the conversion to Christianity of the Danish warlord Guthrum, and helped to found the English nation.

Alton Ketchum describes the Founding Father's earliest military foray, against the French on the headwaters of the Ohio River.