History Today

Ann Hills on fishing tales from Hawaii

John Bossy has painstakingly reconstructed from clues and evidence, a hitherto untold story of intellectual intrigue, spying and double-cross in Elizabethan England.

The incorporation of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1670 reveals much about the personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.

John Roberts finds nationalism a better bet than the idylls of Marx for the longue duree of historical understanding.

Keith Nurse describes important Iron Age finds in Norfolk on display at the British Museum

James Driver gains an insight into current food controversies from the Victorians.

Marjorie Morgan discovers the origins of the image-making of modern marketeers and admen in the upwardly mobile world of 19th-century English society.

Peter Wiseman reconstructs the splendour and intrigue of Imperial Rome

Edward Acton looks to the Tsarist ancien regime of the 19th century to set the scene for a historical understanding of Russia that does not throw out the baby with its Marxist bathwater.