History Today

A time when anyone who was anyone spent weeks at a time on the Riviera.

Radicals and revolutionaries found inspiration in the study of Greece and Rome.

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The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is a myth of enduring love that has inspired artists, writers and composers for centuries.

A personal interpretation of France under two occupations, reissued as a Modern Classic.

A new book is a paean to American capitalism.

Recent press coverage of a cave filled with ‘witch marks’ misses the point.

What links Colonel Despard, the Royal Bethlem Hospital and the inventor Humphry Davy?

A Native American method of tenderising meat goes global.

Antiquities were high stakes and high profit in 16th-century Rome, and no one was above breaking the law for loot.