History Today

How an all-American celebration evolved from the pre-Lent carnivals of the Old World.

David Starkey explores one of his favourite museum galleries, in south London.

Transition in art and kingship, between medieval and Renaissance Europe, characterises the first Tudor's memorial.

Ruthless militarists who extinguished a more thoughtful and sophisticated culture? Or synthesisers of genius who gave England a new lease of life in focusing its attention on Continental Europe? R. Allen Brown weighs profit and loss from the events of 1066.

The Angevin Empire may have come about by a mixture of luck and calculation, but skill and respect for local custom were required for Henry II to preserve it intact.

'Politics didn't matter': the ordinary Germany often insulated himself from the tensions of the Third Reich by concentrating on its work and leisure benefits.

John Palmer explores the new development of computerising the Domesday day book and what the effects will be.

David Cannadine raises questions about the transition from student life into the working world

Mark Kishlansky discusses the change for historians with the ever increasing use of computers.