History Today

A Victorian homage to a Renaissance master became one of the world’s most reproduced images. 

Even in a pastoral idyll, there is death.

‘Timing is everything.’

Four distinguished scholars consider a historical question of enormous contemporary resonance. 

It is among the most commercial as well as maligned fields of history. Four distinguished scholars consider its value – and its future. 

‘Classics is the playing field for some very important questions.’

Holbein the Younger’s image still startles 500 years after its creation.

 ‘Human nature always remains the same.’

Beginning in March 1971, the Bangladesh War of Independence led to East Pakistan becoming a new nation state. Four experts assess the war’s legacy. 

The immortal Titan abandoned to his eternal fate.