History Today

As the government prepares to bring casinos to our high streets, John Childs looks at a gambling craze of the 1690s.

Penny Ritchie Calder of the Imperial War Museum introduces a major new exhibition for this autumn.

To accompany the major exhibition opening at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Janet Backhouse explores the varied roles of patronage in the art of the later Middle Ages.

Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, died on October 9th, 1253, at his favourite manor house at Buckden in Huntingdonshire.

In 1952 the Nobel peace prize was awarded to Albert Scheiwtzer for his work at a hospital in tropical Africa.

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.