History Today

Greg Walker reassesses the evidence for believing that Lollard 'known men' and other evangelicals acted as the underground army that undermined the medieval Catholicism of Henry VIII's church.

What was it like to be a 'boiled octopus' in the silk mills of Japan before the First World War? Janet Hunter looks at the life and conditions of the women who bore the brunt of Japan's rapid industrialisation.

Aram Bakshian tells the story of the peasant carpenter who became a brilliant guerrilla leader and national hero, and who struggled to wrest a free Armenia from Turkey and Russia in the aftermath of the First World War.

National Trust work to restore the gardens of Stowe

Christopher Chippindale on a Stonehenge for all seasons.

Ann Hills gets to the bottom of heritage whodunnits in Shrewsbury.

Richard Hodges looks at the Pompeii controversy and asks if Britain does any better.

Richard Cavendish finds plenty to chew the cud on, courtesy of the BAHS