T he sums are eye-watering. In 991 the English king Æthelred paid the Vikings £10,000 to stop them sacking the east coast of ...

What does the history of the Channel Tunnel tell us about Britain’s relationship with its neighbours? A t 8.23am on the ...

Who Really Wrote the Bible: The Story of the Scribes by William M. Schniedewind asks what authorship meant to the hidden ...

Thanks to Joseph Goebbels, the film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst luxuriated in a massive budget for the dramatised documentary he shot in occupied Prague during the autumn of 1942. Commissioned to ...

Robert Clive’s death has long been attributed to suicide. What is the evidence?

The life of one of the leading British historians of the mid-20th century. ‘Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914’ review The winner of the 2018 Longman-History Today Book ...