Heads or Tails?
A late-Roman coin unearthed in an Oxfordshire field and on show in the Ashmolean Museum leads Llewelyn Morgan to ponder the misleading messages on the faces of coins.
History Today
Animal Farm: Sixty Years On
Robert Pearce gives a historian’s-eye view of George Orwell’s classic novel.
When Turks Civilized the World
Clive Foss looks at the way in which Kemal Atatürk rewrote history as part of his radical modernization of the Turkish nation.
The Hunting Year
Richard Almond deciphers the meaning of a set of illuminations illustrating an unusual Book of Hours made in Germany around the year 1500.
Publication of the Guinness Book of World Records
The Guinness Book of Records was first published on August 27th, 1955.
The Battle of Lechfeld
The Magyars of Hungary were defeated by an army led by Otto I, on August 10th, 955.
Museum of the Reformation
Paul Doolan visits a new museum in Geneva that presents the history of Reformed Christianity and Calvinism as a key and positive factor in European history.
Roman Britain: Ruling Britannia
Archaeologist Miles Russell describes recent discoveries which overturn accepted views about the Roman invasion of Britain.
Douglas Johnson
Martin Evans mourns the loss of Douglas Johnson, doyen of French political history in Britain.
Nye Bevan, Black Marketeer
Mark Roodhouse finds a dark secret in one of the champions of the 1945 Labour landslide.