History Today

Simon Thurley explains why the first Stuarts kept the great Tudor palace virtually intact.

Bernard Porter points out similarities and contrasts between terrorism then and now.

Martin Evans introduces a new series on the painful past.

The founder of Saudi Arabia died on November 9th, 1953. In his last years he was one of the richest men on earth.

Andrew Cook looks at the idea of the unaided assassin, and finds several 20th-century examples.

Martin Petchey outlines a proposed new scheme by the government to protect our heritage.

Kari Konkola and Diarmaid MacCulloch use the evidence of book publishing to contribute to the debate about how widely the English Reformation affected ordinary men and women.

Natasha McEnroe shows that a new exhibition provides insights into both medical and sexual practices in the eighteenth century.

Marianne Elliott examines the facts and the myth of the unlikely Irish nationalist hero who vowed his ‘tomb remain uninscribed until my country takes her place among the nations of the earth’.