On the Spot: Srinath Raghavan
‘History doesn’t teach any lessons – only historians do.’
History Today
Ulysses and the Sirens
A Greek hero sees off the challenge of temptation with the help of his ship’s crew.
Saint for All Seasons
Whatever Henry II may have wished, we will never be rid of Thomas Becket.
For Love or Money
A compendious history of political murder.
Revolution in the air
Those who control the media control the state. Lenin knew this, but by 1991 his Soviet successors had forgotten, to their ultimate cost.
Who’s First?
The Norse voyages to Greenland and Canada as part of a bigger story.
‘Can’t Tek No More’
Franco Rosso’s film Babylon presented the lives of Black Londoners in a way few had done before.
Amelia Earhart goes Missing
The aviator’s plane disappeared on a circumnavigation of the world on 2 July 1937.
A Well-Woven Tale
The fabric of the modern world.
Alternative Histories: Spain, 1490
Unexpected consequences of the Chancellor’s furlough scheme.