History Today

Simon Young reveals the limitations of oral legends as historical sources.

Catherine Roddam looks back at the first recordings of Italian tenor Enrico Caruso.

Gabriel Fawcett examines the controversy surrounding the Wehrmacht exhibition.

Jenny West looks at the role of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, founded by William Morris in 1877 to counteract the highly destructive 'restoration' of medieval buildings being practised by many Victorian architects.

Harold Perkin discusses the role of the extraction and distribution of surplus production in historical change, from Ancient Egypt to the 21st century.

Joanna Bourke on how new ways of looking at masculinity are revising our view of men’s experience in the First World War.

Karen Jones examines the significance of the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park.

Lucinda Lambton finds her namesake, and much more, in deepest Mississippi.

Alun Munslow argues that the centrality of narrative to history undermines empirical views of the subject.