History Today

Helen Davidson on a new search into recovering Charles I's treasure boat.

Mark Meigs uncovers a fascinating initiative enacted in France at the end of the First World War designed to turn American soldiers into students empowered with all the virtues of the Progressive era.

Andrew Allen looks at one of the bizarre fairground attractions of Georgian England and the fate of its practitioners.

Judith Rice on a sixteenth-century sect in the modern world.

Explanation about the myth history of Middle Ages Switzerland.

Richard Cavendish discovers the riches and Diaspora and beyond in the Manchester Jewish museum.

Ralph Harrington looks at the paranoias that railway travel stirred up as it spread across the 19th century.

How the Livery companies of London prepare to show they are ready for the millennium