Is There Too Much Military History?
It is among the most commercial as well as maligned fields of history. Four distinguished scholars consider its value – and its future.
History Today
Sheppard’s Warning
A thief who had been dead for more than a century caused a moral panic in the theatres of Victorian London.
Long Division
The tension between colonial government and the work of missionaries characterised British colonialism in Nigeria.
The Poet as Daemon
The radicalising dangers of reading and writing poetry.
In Plain Sight
A harrowing account of unhidden paedophilia.
Meeting an Urgent Need
The First World War threw widows and their brothers-in-law together, but their marriages were considered incestuous.
Pigeon Racing: A Miner’s World?
Men who spent their working lives underground found a new world of freedom in racing birds.
On the Spot: Shadi Bartsch
‘Classics is the playing field for some very important questions.’
The Dead Christ
Holbein the Younger’s image still startles 500 years after its creation.
Inventor of Jigsaw Puzzle Dies
John Spilsbury, the engraver behind the ‘dissected’ map, died on 3 April 1769.