Europe

History Today’s review of current trends in historical study at British universities.

As we approach the true end of the century, Peter Waldron argues that those who describe Europe’s experience of the last hundred years as bleak and dark are missing part of the story.

Emma Mason argues that rising population brought a surprising degree of movement, politically, geographically and socially.

The woman behind one of Britain's most popular tourist attractions died on 16 April 1850.

Britain’s national archive of official documents and the ways in which it is developing to meet the changing needs of its users

John Foot describes the background to a trial that threatens to clarify an obscure and ignoble chapter in Italy’s recent past.

Peter Clements assesses why two nations which seemingly had so much in common at the beginning of the 1930s were at war with each other by the end of the decade.

Stewart MacDonald introduces the humanist scholar whose writings made him one of the most significant figures of 16th-century Europe.  

James Campbell peers into the murk of the ‘Dark Ages’ and sifts truth from fiction about our post-Roman history.

Debra Higgs Strickland examines the extraordinary demonology of medieval Christendom and the way it endowed strangers and enemies with monstrous qualities.