History Today

Robert Paxton: The Outsider

Martin Evans discusses how the historian Robert Paxton shifted the terms of debate over the collective memory of Vichy France.

The Private Life of Henry VIII

In our Film in Context series, Greg Walker explores the wider messages of Alexander Korda’s historical classic, in terms of the opposition to Appeasement and the mood of 1933.

Athens of the North

Isabel Hariades traces her life in history publishing back to a rich education in Edinburgh and Greece.