The Memory of Catastrophe
Peter Gray and Kendrick Oliver review the debate surrounding the commemoration of historical disasters.
History Today
The Australian Gold Rush Begins
Australian prospectors struck gold on 12 February 1851.
Set in Stone: Victoria's Monuments in India
Mary Ann Steggles recalls the circumstances of the many monuments to Queen Victoria that were erected in India, and traces their fate.
The Execution of the Earl of Essex
After a failed coup d'état against Elizabeth I, Robert Devereux was beheaded at the Tower of London on 25 February 1601
Cardinal Mazarin Goes Into Exile
February 6th, 1651
Not Such Simple Gifts
Lynne Stembridge looks beyond the homespun image of the Shakers, to reveal the substance of the original movement and its sometimes turbulent past.
What I Thought I Understood
Richard Vinen shows how events of the last 10 years have forced him to rethink his own assumptions about the past.
The Cromwell Prize Competition
Annual competition for essays on Oliver Cromwell.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Robert Poole contributes to our occasional Film in Context series, with a look at the way in which Stanley Kubrick redefined our views not only of the future, but of space itself.