History Today

Building Bridges: George Godwin and Architectural Journalism

'Art offers itself as a social ' bridge of no ordinary size and strength.’ The career and campaigns of George Godwin centred on his editorship of The Builder - a tireless commitment to painstaking professionalism mixed with social concern for Victorian architects as problem-solvers and reformers.

Jane's Fighting Ships

Park Honan, author of a new biography of Jane Austen, describes how her naval brother's exploits informed her of the world beyond the genteel tea-cup society of her novels.

Nuclear Prehistory

An examination of an archaeological site in the Lincolnshire village of Fulbeck, by Dymphana Byrne.

The Xi'an Incident

A tragi-comic sequence of mutiny and kidnap marked a crucial stage in the struggle of Nationalists and Communists for the hearts and minds of China.