History Today

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.

Philip Collins argues that Dickens' writing reflects not only a marvellous rapport with a cross-section of Victorian society but an integration of populism with a concern for 'the raising up of those that are down.'

A look at the Georgian Group, who campaign for the protection of ancient buildings.

A historical pioneer of the 'longue durée' who found his own liberal vision of a European Russia clouded by the contradictions and pessimism of his own times.

The Xi'an Incident, a tragi-comic sequence of mutiny and kidnapping, marked a crucial stage in the struggle between Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists and Mao Zedong’s Communists.

Keith Nurse on an urban archaeological undertaking in Blackfriars Bridge, London