History Today

Every commune had to have one - Diana Webb explains how the cult of a holy man or woman and civic PR went hand-in-hand in medieval Italy.

Mary Beard looks at the new ways of thinking about what life was like for women in Greece and Rome.

John Powell chronicles the activities of a Midlands ring of counterfeiters whose activities open a window on the economic and social ambiguities of late Georgian England.

The history of the controversy over People's Park in Berkeley CA is discussed. The 1960s saw the beginnings of the health consciousness movement - natural food, exercise, relaxation.

Family favourites: Jean Wilson sifts through group portraits and monuments for clues as to whether relationships were intimate or remote in early modern England.

Alan Clinton considers the legendary Resistance fighter Jean Moulin, the memory of whose fate still makes waves in France today.

Chris Springer looks at how the Confederate Flag has become a symbol of 20th-century rebellion.

Tony Aldous examines the case of a wind farm which is threatening the archaeological site of Mynydd y Gwair in Wales.