History Today

'Take but degree away... and hark what discord follows' was a Tudor and Stuart commonplace but the neatness and fixity of what we think of as their social order is a creation of historians.

The symbols, slogans, ideas and architecture of the Founding Fathers were saturated in the world of Ancient Greece and Rome.

John Slater looks at the school curriculum and politically sensitive debates.

Buying and selling with our 'kith and kin' was the hallmark of an intensive inter-war campaign for the idea of Empire.

Jack-of-all-trades and master of a period of English history which he both lived through and epitomised.

Existing elements of pagan midwinter rites fused with the developing theology of Christmas in an appeal to the senses of both sacred and lay.

Peter Salway examines the image Roman writers and commanders had of their island province.

A look into the history of a spectacular gold pendant unearthed in Yorkshire.

Tony Aldous reveals the story behind Faversham and a gunpowder works built there around the mid-16th century

Willam Laud, Charles I's Archbishop of Canterbury and a formidable opponent of Puritanism, was executed on 10 January 1645. Charles Carlton examines his little-known nocturnal life.