History Today

Andrew Allen looks at one of the bizarre fairground attractions of Georgian England and the fate of its practitioners.

Judith Rice on a sixteenth-century sect in the modern world.

Explanation about the myth history of Middle Ages Switzerland.

Richard Cavendish discovers the riches and Diaspora and beyond in the Manchester Jewish museum.

Ralph Harrington looks at the paranoias that railway travel stirred up as it spread across the 19th century.

How the Livery companies of London prepare to show they are ready for the millennium

Tim Knox looks at how the explosion of interest in all things Chinese in 18th-century Britain found a centrepiece in the royal gardens of George III.

E. Hall looks at the methods used in ancient Greece to court public opinion in the light of the modern media and messages of democratic politics today.

Were the 'barbarians' who shored up Rome's armies and frontiers the empire's salvation or doom?