History Today

Keith Hopkins takes us on a tour de force via original texts of the hopes, dreams, assumptions and frustrations of the Roman schoolboy.

Michael Leech on Eastern Art Deco

Colin Matthew lays out a stall for the new Dictionary of National Biography

Ian Fitzgerald on medicine and music for 'The Creation'

John Miller considers 20th-century political insiders and outsiders through the eyes of today's historians on radio.

Elisabeth Perry explains why US women did not breakthrough in politics between the wars, despite having won the vote.

Did past ages look upon babies and their needs with less than starry eyes? Nicholas Tucker sifts the evidence from the cradle in history.

Margaret Jervis on a new exhibition at the British Museum on the Egyptian empire.

Anthony Pollard explains how the rivalry of two great Northern families contributed to civil war in fifteenth-century England.