History Today

Conrad Russell examines the evil reputation attached to the poll tax.

Personal persuasion and the hope of maintaining a Scottish identity encouraged emigrants to a better life in 1870s Canada - but their experiences on arrival were far from Utopian.

Questions are raised about the death of men in John Franklin’s 1845 Arctic expedition.

Annette Bingham reports on an environmental project in Sri Lanka.

Elders and betters? Attitudes towards old age in the society of classical Greece were enormously varied and often far from respectful.

Keith Nurse raises questions about the state of Britain’s hospital buildings.

Shelia Fletcher questions the relationship between women and the church from the early nineteenth century.

Christopher Chippindale looks into the religious world of the Turin Shroud.

Fresh air, sexual liberation, manual work and socialism was the heady brew offered by the leading exponent of anti-Establishment attitudes at the end of the Victorian era.

Keith Nurse examines a collection of Indian art at the Powis Castle in Wales.