History Today

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.

Why did the US army in wartime Britain try to get a Lancashire dance-hall declared 'out of bounds' to a young West Indian? Janet Toole describes an episode - and the brave stand taken by the dance-hall owner – that revealed Uncle Sam's unease about the mixing of black and white.

Gary Rawnsley puts in a plea for greater recognition of radio monitoring as a historical source.

Every commune had to have one - Diana Webb explains how the cult of a holy man or woman and civic PR went hand-in-hand in medieval Italy.

Mary Beard looks at the new ways of thinking about what life was like for women in Greece and Rome.

John Powell chronicles the activities of a Midlands ring of counterfeiters whose activities open a window on the economic and social ambiguities of late Georgian England.