History Today

‘If ever a house radiated cheerfulness, that house is Versailles.’ Nancy Mitford on the royal palace in the middle years of Louis XV.

Peter Laslett charts the descent of a near forgotten family of English nobles.

Elizabeth Wiskemann recounts the story of one of Europe’s richest and most hotly-disputed industrial territories

Arthur Bryant looks at how “The Bones of Shire and State” were formed before the Normans came.

Wolf Mankowitz discusses the life and times of one of Britain's most radically successful Georgian industrialists.

To an official court painter we owe the most harrowing records of the effects of revolution and war. W.R. Jeudwine discusses Goya and his times.

The philosophe may have laid the egg, but was the bird hatched of a different breed? Maurice Cranston discusses the intellectual origins and development of the French Revolution.

First published in January 1951, Richard Cavendish pays tribute to History Today's founders and its remarkable continuity.

Judith Flanders applauds Jerry White’s analysis of poverty in North London, first published in History Today in 1981.

Penelope J. Corfield proposes a new and inclusive long-span history course – the Peopling of Britain – to stimulate a renewed interest in the subject among the nation’s secondary school students.