History Today

Britain's private heritage revealed

Philip Mansel looks at interchange and intrigue in the cross-currents of 18th-century culture between East and West.

Richard Cavendish unthreads the history of this Worcestershire museum.

Beasts behind bars - Katharine MacDonogh tells the tale of the animals forced to share their owners' fall from grace after 1789.

Phillip Drennon Thomas on how Henry III's elephant started the ball rolling for one of London's earliest visitor attractions. 

Ben Shepard looks at the post-war experiences of Japanese POWs.

David Irwin chronicles how the imagery of the natural world entwined itself luxuriantly in the visual arts of the 1890s.

The landscape and green spaces that the British planted in India are not only aesthetic delights but also an insight into their self-image and that of the sub-continent they ruled, argue Charles and Caroline Carlton.

Barry Doyle reflects the reinvention of Labour as ‘New Labour’ in the political sphere.

Robert Buckley explores the access for people with disabilities to historical sites