Paul Lay

The shortlist for the best new history book of the year has been released.

Paul Lay reflects on the seemingly endless fascination with Richard's usurpers.

Paul Lay remembers a historian who was never afraid of engaging with the public.

Paul Lay reflects on the legacy of the late Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm.

Paul Lay remembers the historian and Tudor expert Eric Ives, who passed away this week.

The full text of Jonathan Steinberg's interview with History Today editor Paul Lay.

Britain's Olympic success was the result of marrying science with sporting methodology. Can the same techniques be applied to history?

Each period has its heroes who inhabit the moment. Today we are living in the age of the sporting superstar.

John Keegan, arguably the finest military historian of his age, has died after a long illness.

England has been conflated with Britain for so long that unravelling English history from that of its Celtic neighbours is a difficult task. Paul Lay considers recent histories of England and its people.