History Today

Warwick Bray on a new illustrated edition of a colonial 'Domesday Book' for the Aztec world.

Ann Hills on conflict in trust at Orford Ness

Home movies for the Museum of the Moving Image

How Islamic was the founder of Pakistan? Akbar Ahmed offers a radical reassessment of his life and motives - and the forces that propelled his change of course.

Xinzhong Yao examines the prospects for Christianity in China based on past performance.

Crime and the 60s at the Open University

Omer Bartov traces the impact of people's armies from Napoleon to the First World War and beyond.

Robert Thorne on when, and if, Britain’s modern buildings should be listed as historic.

Richard Cavendish muses on the 'stuffed' of history in the animal kingdom in Bodmin Moor.

Glenn Richardson profiles the French king's relationship with Henry VIII and the cultural PR and diplomacy that went with it.