History Today

Glitterless Prizes

David Cannadine raises questions about the transition from student life into the working world

The Making of Domesday Book

Domesday Book nudges Magna Carta for the title of best-known official document in English history. Yet apart from its extraordinary scope and speed of compilation, much about the book has remained obscure or unnown. 

The Welshness of the Tudors

Without their Welsh connections, the Tudors could never have made good their rags-to-riches ascent to the English throne, argues Peter R. Roberts.

The Nazi State: Machine or Morass?

Competing interests as much as ideology fuelled the functioning of the Third Reich, augmented by forced labour and the plunder of Occupied Europe.

Real-Time

Mark Kishlansky discusses the change for historians with the ever increasing use of computers.