History Today

Alastair Dunn discusses the battle and its repercussions in its 600th anniversary year.

Jonathan Conlin considers the history of heritage panics, from relics to Raphaels.

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.

Elizabeth A. Fenn examines a little known catastrophe that reshaped the history of a continent.

Richard Cavendish explores the papacy of Pius X, who was elected on August 4th, 1903.

Richard Cavendish describes James IV of Scots and Margaret Tudor's wedding on August 8th, 1503.

Captain Meriwether Lewis set off from Pittsburgh on 31 August 1803, to begin the first American expedition to the Pacific overland.

Mikhail Safonov argues that the Beatles did more for the break up of totalitarianism in the USSR than Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov.

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.

Janet L. Nelson argues that the study of medieval history in British schools is just what the twenty-first century requires.