History Today

Five hundred years ago, in a spirit of rivalry and cooperation, two young Renaissance monarchs asserted their power and authority at one of the last great demonstrations of the chivalric age.

What does it mean to speak gobbledygook, mumbo-jumbo or jargon? Such words are more fraught than the playful games of the Jabberwocky suggest.

Venice developed the most sophisticated intelligence network in Renaissance Europe, securing it from enemies within and without.

In the politically chaotic decades before true universal suffrage, some infants found a way to vote in British elections.

Exploring Paris, city of horses.

History has taught me that even ‘unreformable’ systems can be reformed or dismantled from within.

In a time of crisis, empathy is the antidote to a culture of naming and shaming.

The Gowers Report of 1950 was the first step in the postwar rescue of Britain’s country house heritage.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp premiered on 10 June 1943.

The cultural politics of papal Rome.