History Today

There was no period in the past when people did not try to manipulate nature in order to provide a more varied and nutritious diet, argues Annie Gray. We will need similarly ingenious methods in the future.

In no country is Magna Carta held in greater reverence than in the United States, playing a crucial role in founding the republic’s political and legal system.

The archetypal image of the Weimar Republic is one of political instability, economic crisis and debauched hedonism. The cliché is being challenged.

Evolution and religion went head-to-head in a landmark case of 1925.

Just half a century on from Magna Carta, a radical noble, part idealist, part megalomaniac, came into conflict with King John’s son, Henry III. The result, argues Nigel Saul, was a form of assembly which shapes English political life to this day.

Magna Carta was born of the loss of King John’s French territories and his increasingly desperate – and expensive – attempts to regain them.

Wagner's opera was first performed in Munich on June 10th, 1865.

An exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford.

Before its untimely end this once great city was the centre of a vast and powerful civilisation.

Archaeologists and criminologists are looking at ways to combat the illicit trade in antiquities.