Territorial Wars
The Territorial Army, currently celebrating its centenary, has had a constant struggle to survive – and never more so than today, says Ian Beckett.
History Today
Bringing the Sky Down to Earth
Anthony Aveni explains how the people planning great monuments and cities, many millennia and thousands of miles apart, so often sought the same inspiration – alignments with the heavens.
The Treaties of Tianjin
The treaties that ended the first part of the second Opium War were signed on 26 and 27 June 1858.
The Assassination of Robert Kennedy
Kennedy was fatally shot on 5 June 1968, in Los Angeles, California. He died the following day.
Libya, Land of Myths & Demons
David Winter visits a land beset for millennia by the fantasies of outsiders.
Fifty Years of Women Peers
Mari Takayanagi, archivist at the Parliamentary Archives, explains the significance of the Life Peerages Act,1958.
German Diaries
Roger Moorhouse visits a unique archive of diaries from German history
The Jewel of History
Corinne Julius visits a new gallery of jewels at the V&A to see what sparkle they add to our understanding of history.
‘Weep Wretched Man’ - Civil War in Poetry
Kenneth Baker on poetry inspired by nations warring between themselves.
Death of St Bruno
The founder of the Carthusian Order died on 6 October, 1101.