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Apps and websites for learning more about the politician and wartime prime minister.

New perspectives on the Holocaust are possible if we transcend the limitations of German national history and consider it as a global catastrophe, argues Timothy Snyder.

A medieval version of the story of Tristan and Iseult has the knight battle a dragon for the hand of his love.

The first effective miners' safety lamp was unveiled on November 9th 1815.

In differing ways, John Bossy, Lisa Jardine and David Cesarani all broke free from the discipline's traditional confines.

The British Museum's major new exhibition grapples with the fluid concept of Celtic culture.

One 19th-century MP shared the same frustrations with parliamentary procedures as the new leader of the Labour party.

The pseudo-science of managerialism is having a pernicious effect on higher education. Radical ideas are needed if disciplines such as history are to continue to prosper, argues Mathew Lyons. 

In the light of the recent vote on English Votes for English Laws, a consideration of Britain’s long-running constitutional question.

Another outing for one of the 20th century's most pernicious myths.