History Today

Colin Jones discusses the art and artifice of the leading mistress of Louis XV.

Anubha Charan reports on the latest findings from the Gulf of Cambay.

Entries describing the objects kept and used in the principal rooms of Henry VIII’s household.

Celebrating the library and the University of Oxford’s greatest benefactor.

Gustav Stresemann was at the heart of government until he died in 1929. Had he lived, could he have steered Germany safely through the Weimar era?

Was Bruce as patriotic or as harmonious in his relationship with Wallace as the view of historical romance has handed down? Andrew Fisher investigates the meaning of patriotism in 14th-century Scotland and suggests the tradition needs revising.

Anne Crawford describes Britain’s national archive of official documents, and the ways in which it is developing to meet the changing needs of its users.

Philip Ziegler tells how a chance invitation to a Loire château set him en route to becoming a historical biographer.

Craig Spence uncovers records of black and Asian sailors in the pictorial archives of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.