Child Murder in Georgian England
Anne-Marie Kilday and Katherine Watson explore 18th-century child killers, their motivations and contemporary attitudes towards them.
History Today
Before New England: The Popham Colony
Richard L. Pflederer visits the site of the first short-lived English colony in Maine set up in competition with Jamestown in Virginia, and considers a remarkable map of it drawn by one of the colonists.
‘Warrior Races’ in Medieval Europe
Len Scales considers the complex role of martial skill in the development of national identity in the Middle Ages.
Remembering Conrad Russell
Benedict King pays personal tribute to a great historian and teacher.
Death of Dorothy Wordsworth
Dorothy Wordsworth died on January 25th, 1855, aged eighty-four.
Birth of Alexander Hamilton
The Founding Father was born on 11 January 1755.
‘Bloody Sunday’ in St Petersburg
About 200 people died and 800 were wounded during the march led by Father George Gapon on 22 January 1905.
Chersonesos: The Ukrainian Pompeii
Danny Wood visits a remarkable excavation in Ukraine.
Unravelling the Da Vinci Code
Bill Putnam and John Edwin Wood peel away the evidence to find an extraordinary hoax at the heart of Dan Brown’s bestselling novel.
Michael Grant
George Weidenfeld recalls a masterful historian of ancient Rome, and much else besides.