History Today

Richard Overy examines how technological advances in the air and on the road gave society a jump-start at the end of the nineteenth century.

Robin Bruce Lockhart looks at the Anglophile his father knew and discusses new theories on how he died and why.

A new museum and tours dedicated to the battles of the Somme

Tony Aldous discusses the missing millions in the art world

Richard Cavendish carves out some monumental history in Derbyshire

Norman Bainbridge looks at the events to mark Nottinghamshire's role in the English Civil War.

Neil Evans on the Continent's Celtic connections

Anthony Gross traces the tenacious efforts of Henry VI's partisans to regain the throne from the House of York, and at a strange alliance that nearly paid off.

Trevor Fisher chronicles the backlash against libertarianism in art and literature in the closing years of the Victorian era.