William Morgan and the Welsh Bible
Rosemary Burton remembers a special 400th anniversary in Welsh history
History Today
The Lurch Into War
In May of 1588, Spain's great Armada set sail, bent on the invasion and conquest of Elizabethan England. Simon Adams re-examines the strategic considerations that underpinned the actions of both England and Spain before and after the Armada.
Gauging the Future
Tony Aldous on mid-19th century plans for a railway station in the centre of London.
Radical Rogues and Blackmailers in the Regency Period
Iain McCalman discusses how politically motivated was the blackguarding by low life of high society in the Regency period.
Greek Archaeology from Schliemann to Surveys
Graham Shipley discusses how new archaeological discoveries and techniques are progressively refining our views of Classical Greece.
Crime in 20th Century Britain
Victor Bailey looks at the alarming rise in British crime in the second half of the twentieth century.
A Thousand Years of Russian Orthodoxy
Julie Richards-Williams examines the millennium of Christianity in Russia
Chasing a Chameleon: Trebitsch Lincoln
Missionary, failed MP, counter-revolutionary, Buddhist abbot – Bernard Wasserstein tracks an extraordinary character through his secret lives across the ideological and international battleground of the early twentieth century.
Crime in 19th-Century Britain
Clive Emsley discovers the Victorian underworld and the attempts to combat it.
Dovecote Press: Small is Successful
Ann Hills looks at history at the local level in Dorset