History Today

Domesday Book nudges Magna Carta for the title of best-known official document in English history. Yet apart from its extraordinary scope and speed of compilation, much about the book has remained obscure or unnown. 

Elizabeth Hallam reflects on the usage and abusage of William the Conqueror's Domesday book.

Michael Lee questions the use of using political historical sources.

Historians grapple with a difficult subject.

Without their Welsh connections, the Tudors could never have made good their rags-to-riches ascent to the English throne, argues Peter R. Roberts.

A round up of the latest texts on the complex subject of the Norman Conquest.

Competing interests as much as ideology fuelled the functioning of the Third Reich, augmented by forced labour and the plunder of Occupied Europe.

Mark Kishlansky discusses the change for historians with the ever increasing use of computers.

'Trappings of popery and rags of the beast'. Mince-pies, mummers, holly and church services all fell victim to a determined Puritan attempt to stamp out the celebration of Christmas under the Commonwealth.