An Introduction to Henry VIII
David Starkey provides an introduction to the remarkable ruler and places his achievements in a European context.
History Today
A Woman's Place? Learning and the Wives of Henry VIII
Maria Dowling considers the contribution of Henry VIII's queens in promoting new learning and religion at the Tudor court.
Holding the Field
David Chandler enters a plea for a more sensitive treatment for Europe’s great battlefields.
Making Moves at Fifty
Robert Thorne on monumental records on the move.
America's 'Civil' Wars
Hugh Purcell examines the impact on either side of the Atlantic of Ken Burns’s tour de force, The Civil War.
The Coracle Society
Richard Cavendish paddles along with the Coracle Society.
Gems of Discovery
Keith Nurse reveals news of Anglo-Saxon jewellery find in Suffolk.
Byron and the Carbonari
Lord Byron has gone down in history as the 'poet at war' supporting the Greek struggle for independence, but here Richard Lansdown uncovers his involvement with another mysterious nationalist group in 19th-century Italy, a tale of secrecy, symbolism and masonic rituals.
The Changing Face of 19th-Century Britain
Gareth Stedman Jones argues that an exciting revaluation of narrative analysis of the 'workshop of the world' is on the way through the political and intellectual upheavals of the 1980s.
George Fox and the Origins of Quakerism
In the tercentenary year of the death of the founder of the Society of Friends, Michael Mullett takes a look at the outlook and achievement of a man to whom 'all things were new'.