History Today

Robert A. Lambert explains the problems arising from a nature conservation success as part of our series on History and the Environmment.

Richard Cavendish explains how the Act of Settlement, signed by William III on June 12th, 1701, brought the Hanoverian dynasty to the throne.

David Johnson looks at the art of Sayers and Gillray and the role of pictorial satire in the destruction of a government.

Helen Rappaport tells the story of James Abbe, a little-known American photographer, whose images of the USSR in the 1930s record both the official and unofficial faces of the Stalinist regime.

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.