Mary Tudor: Queen of Hearts
Mary Rose was the younger sister of Henry VIII. David Loades describes how this forgotten Tudor was something of a wild card.
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Titanic: A Night to Forget
For a century the sinking of the Titanic has attracted intense interest. Yet there have been many vested interests keen to prevent media attention.
Panipat: The Mughals Strike Twice
The two 16th-century battles of Panipat are little known in the West. But they were pivotal in establishing the Mughal Empire as the dominant power of northern India.
Who Killed Alexander the Great?
James Romm examines some intriguing new theories about a long-standing historical mystery.
The Peekskill Riots, 1949
Roger Hudson on the vitriolic reaction to Paul Robeson's open-air concert in Peekskill, New York, 1949.
Titanic: Southampton’s Deep Sorrow
The impact of the Titanic disaster on Southampton, the city from which it sailed and home to more than a third of those who lost their lives, was immense.
The Falklands: Dangerous Terrain
Thirty years after the Falklands War the bitter debate over the South Atlantic islands remains clouded in historical ignorance, argues Klaus Dodds
Intoxicating Trends
Since the 19th century, attitudes to drugs have been in constant flux, argues Victoria Harris, owing as much to fashion as to science.
The Mystery of the Glastonbury Cross
Just before Christmas 2011 the Heritage Lottery Fund announced a grant of £1.8m for the restoration of Forty Hall Park, Enfield, the site of a Tudor palace and later an 18th-century pleasure garden. Thirty years before, it had been the setting for a bizarre archaeological ‘discovery’, as Richard Mawrey recounts.
History's Heroic Age
Blair Worden revisits Hugh Trevor-Roper’s essay on the radicalism of the Puritan gentry, a typically stylish and ambitious contribution to a fierce controversy.