History Today

John Earl looks into the world of theatre.

Stranger than Fiction - the undercover spying mission of a British officer disguised as a Boer in German South-West Africa provided John Buchan with inspiration for his most famous character.

'Art offers itself as a social ' bridge of no ordinary size and strength.’ The career and campaigns of George Godwin centred on his editorship of The Builder - a tireless commitment to painstaking professionalism mixed with social concern for Victorian architects as problem-solvers and reformers.

Park Honan, author of a new biography of Jane Austen, describes how her naval brother's exploits informed her of the world beyond the genteel tea-cup society of her novels.

Terence Mirabelli investigates why Syria is losing an archaeological site.

Ian R. Mitchell examines the museums of East and West Germany which provide contrasting views to German history.

R.J.A.Wilson accounts for the making of Roman Britain.

An examination of an archaeological site in the Lincolnshire village of Fulbeck, by Dymphana Byrne.

Sarah Jane Evans examines the first of series of archaeological excavations on the Thames at Rotherhithe.