History Today

Tony Aldous takes a look at a replica 1930s store in Blackheath Village, south London.

The first of the Romantic historians or a disgruntled propagandist of counter-revolution? Jeremy Black investigates how far Edmund Burke was a child of his times and had a political rather than an academic vocation.

Penelope Johnston takes a look back on the dinosaur age.

Ian Bradley examines the driving forces behind the crofters' attacks on the deer forests of Skye and Lewis.

One of history's little ironies - a period piece of First World War propaganda from a curious source which rebounded on its author.

70 years ago the massed tank battle of Cambrai ushered in the transformation of the mythology, imagery and practice of conventional land warfare.

Christmas is a time for children... an adage the Middle Ages took literally by promoting choir boys into bishops at ceremonies linked to the festive season.

To the greater glory of God – but not forgetting to include the patron – was the guiding principle of the creative art of the Middle Ages.

The formidable intellectual challenge to the English church by Wyclif and the pastoral work of his followers challenged the hitherto unquestioned acceptance of clerical authority and opened the door to individual judgement and conscience in religious matters.

Pamela Tudor-Craig looks at complex allegories, moral and theological, conveyed in images of considerable beauty which are still being recovered today.