History Today

Robin Bruce Lockhart asks if eyewitness history is more reliable than that of the historians

Ann Hills on Scotland's Museum of Religion

Geoffrey Tweedale on Sheffield's history of steelmaking.

John Geipel chronicles the tenacity of the tongue in Brazil's Indian heritage

With a hey nonny-no - but the courtship of Elizabethan lads and lasses was not quite as buccolic as the madrigals suggest, as Eric Carlson explains.

Tabloid intrusion into the lives of the famous via the photo lens was a feature of Edwardian, as well as contemporary, Britain, as Nicholas Hiley here intriguingly reveals.

Paul Dukes looks at how history, like everything else in Russia, is being turned inside out.

Keith Nurse explores the findings of a post excavations studies carried out on an ancestral burial ground in Warwickshire.

Why did the US army in wartime Britain try to get a Lancashire dance-hall declared 'out of bounds' to a young West Indian? Janet Toole describes an episode - and the brave stand taken by the dance-hall owner – that revealed Uncle Sam's unease about the mixing of black and white.

Gary Rawnsley puts in a plea for greater recognition of radio monitoring as a historical source.