History Today

Described by John Ruskin as “the most beautiful sacerdotal figure known to me in history,” the heroic bishop triumphantly upheld his office against two proud and strong-willed English sovereigns.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, there was a clear stretch of water between Kingston Bridge and London Bridge. By 1800, despite lobbying by powerful vested interests, six new bridges spanned the river.

Jeffrey Green argues that to ignore the diverse black presence in Britain prior to the 1940s is to perpetuate a distorted view of British history

Simon Young recounts the history of the long-forgotten British Celt colony off the Galician coast

Leah Marcus shows the Tudor queen to have been a mistress of the English language as much as of the English people.

Joan Perkin tells the rags-to-riches story of Harriet Mellon, the actress who married the banker Thomas Coutts.

Daniel Snowman meets the biographer of Tudors and Stuarts, and the author of The Weaker Vessel and The Gunpowder Plot.

Perry Biddiscombe traces the historical background to the contemporary neo-Nazi and skinhead violence in Germany.

Juliet Gardiner former editor of History Today, describes the first steps on her path to becoming a historian.

John F.M. Clark looks at the changing fortunes of the house sparrow