History Today

The cases of women in early modern England who claimed to survive by little but faith alone are described by Walter Vandereycken and Ron Van Deth.

Richard Cavendishon the modes and manners of the Costume Society

Robin Bruce Lockhart asks if eyewitness history is more reliable than that of the historians

Ann Hills on Scotland's Museum of Religion

Geoffrey Tweedale on Sheffield's history of steelmaking.

John Geipel chronicles the tenacity of the tongue in Brazil's Indian heritage

With a hey nonny-no - but the courtship of Elizabethan lads and lasses was not quite as buccolic as the madrigals suggest, as Eric Carlson explains.

Tabloid intrusion into the lives of the famous via the photo lens was a feature of Edwardian, as well as contemporary, Britain, as Nicholas Hiley here intriguingly reveals.

Paul Dukes looks at how history, like everything else in Russia, is being turned inside out.

Keith Nurse explores the findings of a post excavations studies carried out on an ancestral burial ground in Warwickshire.