History Today

Sarah Jane Checkland visits a 15th-century Wiltshire Manor House.

'Rude, rough and lawless' was one view of the women and children employed on the land in Victorian England. But was theirs a harsher fate than work in the factory system?

Was the Protestant Church of Elizabeth the catalyst for a new patriotism, based on a special sense of English destiny and divine guidance?

Stephen Williams investigates the excavations at Leadenhall Court of the surviving portion of Roman London’s Forum- Basilica.

Nigel Saul takes a look at the significance of the Norman conquest.

Domesday's facelift for its 900th birthday reflects modern scholarship's changing taste as well as the new priorities of conservation.

J K Elliot examines sources on the New Testament and early Christians.

David Starkey explores one of his favourite museum galleries, in south London.

Transition in art and kingship, between medieval and Renaissance Europe, characterises the first Tudor's memorial.

Ruthless militarists who extinguished a more thoughtful and sophisticated culture? Or synthesisers of genius who gave England a new lease of life in focusing its attention on Continental Europe? R. Allen Brown weighs profit and loss from the events of 1066.