History Today

Ann Hills discusses controversial spending plans for Irish heritage

When did a gentleman become a gentleman? Penny Corfield looks at the curious odyssey of the species from Tudor times onwards.

An entente cordiale transformed into a lasting bond after the war to end all wars - but it was not to be. Antony Lentin looks at who duped whom in the manoeuvrings for an Anglo-French alliance following the 1918 armistice

Nigel Saul looks at the two-way traffic between medieval Britain and the Continent

Did the nature of war change states and societies in Europe between 1500 and 1750 or vice versa? David Parrott looks at the state of play in one of history's most celebrated recent revaluations.

Queen Victoria inherited the 'Buckingham House' from her uncle, William IV, in 1837. She was eighteen years old. Patricia Wright looks at the chequered origins and troubled early years of London's royal landmark.

John Clark looks for lessons from the Victorians' 'beetle-mania'

Robert Garland draws on both mythology and accounts of everyday life to probe attitudes to physical misfortune in the classical era.

Robert Thorne discusses 19th-century London on show in Germany