History Today

Bryan Palmer looks at how language, geography, regionalism, class and gender are interacting to make for interesting times in Canada's historiography.

Steve Humphries uncovers via oral testimony the hidden history of Britain's pre-war homeless

Harry Hearder argues that language has been a help rather than a hindrance in Italy's past and present struggle to achieve political and psychological unity.

Richard Cavendish and the leitmotiv of lost innocence at Elgar's birthplace and museum near Worcester.

Helen Davidson on how mining history is in jeopardy.

Has our image of Henry VIII's elder daughter as 'Bloody Mary', burning Protestants and unhappily married to Philip of Spain, clouded our assessment of how close she came to restoring the old religion? 

Peter Higgs looks at how a monumental Hellenistic statue sheds light on culture, religion and identity in Roman North Africa.

Louis Crompton argues that male love and military prowess went hand in hand in classical Greece.

Karl Hack on the links between dams and decolonisation and the ups and downs of Anglo-Malaysian relations.

Tony Aldous investigates the findings of researchers at Southampton University and colleagues at Amsterdam’s University academic centre into the effects of malnutrition of pregnant women on the health of their children in later life.