History Matters
Thoughts, opinions and commentary on all things historical.
President Trump’s recent foreign adventures are unlikely to match Nixon’s actions of July and August 1971 in historic significance.
Why is the siege such a popular and controversial imperial episode?
In their quest to collect all the knowledge of the known world, Roman authors also recorded the strange and the fabulous.
When does a boy become a man? Medieval millennials were just as hard to define as those of today.
The propagation of humanity has been a bloody struggle for women.
The unusual circumstances of the founding of New Orleans have had lasting impact on its culture.
From cave paintings to Kindle, our history is written in ink – adapted and reinvented to reflect, and influence, the needs of the day.
Why did only some women get the vote in 1918 and what did they do with it?
The six titles on the shortlist for our annual book prize.