History Today

Mildred Budny gauges the scale and achievement of 11th-century art.

Paul Dukes urges the need to widen our vision of the past by adopting the perspective of world history.

John Grigg questions whether D-Day could have taken place earlier and, instead, did it drag out the course of the war?

Geoffrey Warner looks at the reasons for the delay in opening a second Allied Front.

Anthony Wright looks at the impact on socialism and society in the last 100 years of Fabianism.

Jorvik, the Viking-age predecessor of modern York, has in recent years, been revealed by archaeologists in astonishing detail. A new underground Viking centre in the city has enabled the excavated evidence to be displayed where it was found, accompanied by an innovative full-size reconstruction of a complete Viking-age neighbourhood.

The Duke of Wellington proved a gift to the cartoonists of 'Punch' - he was a figure the magazine's readership would recognise, and he did not look unlike Mr Punch himself.

The trade guilds of Venice, explains Richard Mackenney, were organisations with a surprising amount of political and economic power in the patrician Renaissance city.