The Exhumation of a Nazi Perpetrator
The origins of SS General Otto von Wächter’s rise to power.
History Today
May Quiz
Which Pope refused Henry VIII’s annulment? When was income tax first levied in Britain?
How To Live Forever
The recent discovery of an Anglo-Saxon saint’s relics reminds us of the fragility of human life and the power of hope.
First in Her Field (Work)
The pioneering archaeologist and Oxbridge’s first woman professor, Dorothy Garrod was elected to the Chair of Archaeology on 6 May 1939.
On the Home Front
A lively, privileged group of young intellectuals grew ever more alarmed by the crises that struck Britain in the mid-1740s.
A Painting Tells a Thousand Words
The Painted Hall at Greenwich: how it was commissioned, its narrative and its meaning.
The Rise of the Working Wife
Though remembered as the era of the housewife, momentous change in the status of British women began in the 1950s.
The Key to Success?
The mobilisation of economic, diplomatic and military resources.
Beethoven’s 250th Symphony
As music became an art for all the people of Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven became the hero and the symbol of an aspiring German nation.
The Forging of a Communist
The historian Eric Hobsbawm kept faith with the Marxist orthodoxies of his youth even after the Soviet invasions of Hungary in 1956, of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Why?