History Today

Oriental dealers Eskenazi and their new London outlet

Mark Stoyle uncovers the juvenile delinquency of the man who saved the Stuart monarchy and brought back Charles II.

Blake Pinnell explains how an ancient tradition got out of hand and drained the public purse of 18th-century England.

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.