[16th June 2010 - 10.00]
The story of the first black South African football team to visit these shores, as June's issue reminds us, is not only extraordinary and inspiring,...
[12th May 2010 - 10.00]
In many ways, the decade since the first issue of this magazine hit the shelves has been a great one for history.
Merely to glance at a list of...
[14th April 2010 - 11.00]
As this month’s issue reminds us, this year marks the 350th anniversary of the Restoration of the monarchy in the colourful figure of Charles...
[30th March 2010 - 11.00]
With the headlines full of pre-election sparring, it seems that one of the pivotal decisions of modern times is almost upon us. But despite all the...
[4th February 2010 - 14.34]
To read this month’s article about Oliver Cromwell is to be reminded of one of the most extraordinary individual stories in our history....
[3rd December 2009 - 12.49]
For all the pleasures of a life spent contemplating the past, for all the sense of discovery and escapism, history often takes us to the darkest...
[11th November 2009 - 07.20]
In an age when we are all supposed to be shallow consumer junkies, fixated on the future and indifferent to the past, the deaths of Henry Allingham...
[30th September 2009 - 10.00]
If there is one word guaranteed to have a historian foaming at the mouth with rage, that word is ‘heritage’. For many, perhaps most...
[19th August 2009 - 15.48]
Seventy years on, the Second World War still stands out in the popular imagination as that rare thing: a uniquely ‘good’ war, a...
[5th August 2009 - 11.23]
Wiith the nation reeling with shock at the revelations of our politicians’ venality, more than a few commentators, reflecting on the sad...
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