History Today

Retro Berlin?

Bruce Martin on whether nostalgia or modernism will win out in plans to reshape the centre of Berlin.

Marriage and Motherhood in Ancient Egypt

We may all know about Nefertiti, but what was life like for the less-famous women of ancient Egypt? Joyce Tyldesley describes the restraints and freedoms operating on daughters of Isis. 

Turner and Shakespeare's Jessica

Andrew Wilton discusses a picture that shows the great landscape painter in a role removed from his stereotype, and which tells us much about the changing mores and aspirations of 'Middlemarch' England.