History Today

Marika Sherwood reveals the state of our knowledge – and ignorance – about a period of our multi-racial past.

Jonathan Lewis and Hew Strachan point out the daunting challenges and exciting opportunities involved in producing a new major TV series.

John Slatter celebrates the far-ranging contributions of Russian political émigrés to British life in the half-century before 1917.

The succession of conflicts known as the Hundred Years War ended on October 19th, 1453, when Bordeaux surrendered, leaving Calais as the last English possession in France.

Daniel Snowman meets Lisa Jardine, Renaissance and Shakespeare scholar, historian of science and biographer of Erasmus, Bacon, Wren and Hooke.

Hugh Miles assesses the significance of the Piltdown hoax.

Assistant Curator Will Palin recalls the labour of love behind the architect and collector Sir John Soane’s efforts to create his home and museum on London’s Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and tells of the major restoration project that marks the 250th anniversary year of Soane’s birth.

Kyle Jones unearths the real expense involved in riding to hounds.

What led Li Zhengsheng, a Chinese newspaper photographer, to preserve vivid images of the Cultural Revolution, even at enormous personal risk?

Peter Furtado looks at the need for urgent action and a major conference to save Venice from flooding.