History Today

Robin Bruce Lockhart, 'midwife's assistant' at the birth of History Today, contributes some personal recollections of the magazine's mercurial and larger-than-life founder.

Michael Foot celebrates the anniversary of the London Library with a tribute to its founder, Thomas Carlyle.

Elizabethans in the Arctic

Ragnhild Hatton on her memories - and the perspective of other historians - on Wartime Norway.

Richard Cavendish visits an organisation devoted to architectural treats.

'The bread and butter of life' - Martin Pugh traces how the increasing electoral importance of food and domestic issues in Britain helped to entrench women in the mainstream of political life.

Sir Nicholas Henderson on a misunderstood Enlightenment ruler.

Barbara Donagan discusses the variable treatment of captives by captors between Crown and Parliament and what light it sheds on the manners and mores of the times.

Timothy Jacobson with a plea for America's 'history for all'.