History Today

Anne Crawford describes Britain’s national archive of official documents, and the ways in which it is developing to meet the changing needs of its users.

Philip Ziegler tells how a chance invitation to a Loire château set him en route to becoming a historical biographer.

Craig Spence uncovers records of black and Asian sailors in the pictorial archives of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

Angela Brabin uncovers the gruesome tale of serial murder committed by a group of women in the poorest districts of 19th-century Liverpool.

Daniel Snowman meets the historian of ‘Martin Guerre’.

The last Plantagenet king was born on 2 October 1452.

Mark Weisenmiller explains how, forty years ago, the ‘Sunshine State’ played a pivotal role in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In-house historical adviser Katherine Prior introduces this new museum which opens at the end of September.

David M. Wilson, former director of the British Museum, describes the founding of the famous institution.

Neil Faulkner sees the destruction of Jerusalem and fall of Masada in the 1st century as the result of a millenarian movement that sought to escape the injustices of an evil empire.