History Today

Showman, fraud or 'Green' prophet? John Hayman investigates the life of perhaps North America's most famous 'Indian' between the wars.

Mogens Hansen looks at the launch of democracy in 6th-century Athens and those who have sustained it since.

Josiah Ober looks at the rights and responsibilities of the citizen in Athenian society through the words of Demosthenes, the city's greatest orator. 

Richard Pflederer on the technological and cartographical advances of the early modern naval powers of Holland and England

Keith Nurse investigates new archaeological findings linking wine producing to Roman England.

An absurd procession of chivalry or mad mass charges? Analysis of fighting in the Middle Ages has become more subtle than either of these scenarios, argues Sean McGlynn.

Michael Grant remembers the History Today Editor and his expertise in bringing history to the attention of the wider public.

Ann Hills examines the work of the York Archaeological Trust on Barley Hall.

Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska questions the reality of rationing for Britain’s Royal family during the war and after.

Set–piece contests about industrial pollution are nothing new – as Ronald Rees reveals in this tale of epic legal struggles in south Wales during the Industrial Revolution.