Mathew Lyons

Theodore left Rome for Canterbury on 27 May 668.

The pioneering archaeologist and Oxbridge’s first woman professor, Dorothy Garrod was elected to the Chair of Archaeology on 6 May 1939.

Nicholas Hilliard was a portraitist at the pinnacle of his profession.

Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words by Jeremy Mynott explores the role birds played in intellectual, practical, and emotional lives.

We live in an era sceptical of singularity and authority, yet attracted to narrow certainties. Might a more self-consciously subjective approach to history offer solutions, asks Mathew Lyons?

The pseudo-science of managerialism is having a pernicious effect on higher education. Radical ideas are needed if disciplines such as history are to continue to prosper, argues Mathew Lyons. 

Poorly paid and treated with contempt, the plight of early career researchers in the humanities is the result of a systemic betrayal of a generation of academics, argues Mathew Lyons.

Confronting the brutal facts of history can be difficult. But how far should we protect ourselves from them before it becomes censorship? 

Mathew Lyons argues that historians need to make a greater impact on the political debate about the kind of world we wish to live in.