History Today

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.

Simon Barclay accounts for the restoration of the Beverley gate in Hull

Ronald Hutton takes a closer look at Charles II's Secret Treaty of Dover.

The equation of sound money and balanced budgets with moral probity became difficult to maintain once the high point of 'laissez-faire' had been reached in Gladstone's mid-Victorian financial policies.