History Today

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

The Brontes and the town of Haworth in Yorkshire, where they lived, are knitted inseparably in the popular imagination but, as Michael Baumber explains, it was not just literary genius but also religious revivalism that the parsonage spawned in this period.

Paul Dukes surveys how historians of 1900 viewed their pasts and the prospects of the 20th century.

The debate over the role of women in the Anglican church continues to rage in the UK. A historical look at the role of women in Christianity is presented.

Michael Burleigh on the origins of Volkswagen. 

Michael Leech on a Tudor revival in the East End

Why did the whole of Marshal Petain's fleet go to the bottom of Toulon harbour in November 1942? Anthony Clayton uncovers a tale of amour propre in this 50th anniversary account.