History Today

A precocious tyrant? A charismatic Renaissance prince? An out-of-touch autocrat? Or a progressive monarch maligned by usurpers? Caroline M. Barron assesses the reign of Richard II.

Alan Palmer provides a brief history of a princely residence from the Middle Ages.

Ronald Hutton on the many arguments propounded in the debate over nuclear weapons.

Biography is the most popular non-fiction genre published in Britain. At least, that is the impression one gets from reading the review pages of the Sunday papers. Stephen Trombley explains that the phenomenon is not particularly difficult to understand.

It is a perennial joke amongst those returning from their holidays that the things they had most hoped to see on their journey were lost from view – closed, removed for restoration, or sent away for exhibition elsewhere.

Tessa Murdoch on the exhibition charting the contribution made by the Huguenots to the national life of Britain.

'Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.' – Richard Hooker.

Robin Gwynn examines the arrival of Huguenot French to England in the 17th century.