History Today

Beatrice K. Otto finds court jesters across the world and in every age.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential work first appeared in the National Era on June 5th, 1851.

Bribery scandals in cricket are nothing new. England’s 1882 tour of Australia soon brought the most respectable of sports into disrepute.

Anthony Kersting, architectural photographer, describes how his passion for buildings was fuelled by a Middle Eastern posting during the War

David Moulson looks at the history of pewter, as a new dedicated museum opens in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Jim Kelsey looks at the current transformation of the Royal Albert Hall.

Geoffrey Best, doyen of Victorian history, demonstrates that not all leading scholars start out as swots

Julian Swann reviews real and imagined conspiracies in early modern Europe.

David Brewer shows that while ‘ethnic truth’ does little to explain history, history does much to explain ‘ethnic truth’

David Cannadine sees the British Empire as a spectacular and colourful extension of the social order of the home country