History Today

The controversy caused by the role of British police in recent industrial disputes has its counterpart in the troubled years before and after the First World War.

Gregor Dallas tells how the transition from small-town to metropolis brought enormous problems and pressures to the Big Apple. 

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.