Asa Briggs has been associated with History Today from its beginning. In an interview to celebrate our 60th anniversary, he tells Paul Lay about his involvement with it, his new book on his days as a cryptographer and his passion for Blackpool.
Paul Lay is moved by an exhibition of tokens left by the mothers of children abandoned during the mid-18th century.
Amanda Vickery’s new series on the 18th-century home is part of an enlightened new strategy from the BBC, writes Paul Lay.
The deeply historical nature of Dylan’s output has, until now, received little attention.
The acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh talks to Paul Lay about his influences, working methods, the need for historians to engage in public policy and why he is relieved to be free from academic bureaucracy.
A major new book and BBC television series tell the long, complex and often surprising history of Christianity. Writer and presenter Diarmaid MacCulloch talks about his huge undertaking with Paul Lay
History Today welcomes its seventh Editor to the magazine.
