History Today

It used to be taken for granted that historians wrote narratives, but this is now a matter of debate.

The medieval order of Teutonic Knights held powerful sway over the historical imagination of Germany until the Second World War. Why and how did this nationalist myth flourish?

A precocious tyrant? A charismatic Renaissance prince? An out-of-touch autocrat? Or a progressive monarch maligned by usurpers? Caroline M. Barron assesses the reign of Richard II.

Putting women back in the record? Rewriting the past? Ghetto history? Gender analysis? Eight historians ask what is women's history?

Alan Palmer provides a brief history of a princely residence from the Middle Ages.

Ronald Hutton on the many arguments propounded in the debate over nuclear weapons.

Biography is the most popular non-fiction genre published in Britain. At least, that is the impression one gets from reading the review pages of the Sunday papers. Stephen Trombley explains that the phenomenon is not particularly difficult to understand.

It is a perennial joke amongst those returning from their holidays that the things they had most hoped to see on their journey were lost from view – closed, removed for restoration, or sent away for exhibition elsewhere.