History Today
A Kingdom in Crisis: Henry IV and the Battle of Shrewsbury
Alastair Dunn discusses the battle and its repercussions in its 600th anniversary year.
Raiders of the Lost Art
Jonathan Conlin considers the history of heritage panics, from relics to Raphaels.
Deep Time in Kents Cavern
Kents Cavern, Devon, is famous throughout the world for its wealth of archaeology and geology. Margaret Powling investigates the cave’s prehistoric past and looks towards its future.
The Great Smallpox Epidemic
Elizabeth A. Fenn examines a little known catastrophe that reshaped the history of a continent.
Pius X Elected Pope
Richard Cavendish explores the papacy of Pius X, who was elected on August 4th, 1903.
Marriage of James IV of Scots and Margaret Tudor
Richard Cavendish describes James IV of Scots and Margaret Tudor's wedding on August 8th, 1503.
Start of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Captain Meriwether Lewis set off from Pittsburgh on 31 August 1803, to begin the first American expedition to the Pacific overland.
The Beatles: ‘You Say You Want a Revolution’
Mikhail Safonov argues that the Beatles did more for the break up of totalitarianism in the USSR than Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov.
Prince Potemkin and the Benthams
Simon Sebag Montefiore describes an unlikely project to create an English village in Belorussia involving Catherine the Great’s lover and the philosopher Jeremy Bentham and his brother.