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 ...

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 ...

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

The Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900 is widely regarded as the most brilliant event of its kind. The Métro with its spectacular Art Nouveau stations was opened for it. So were the imposing Pont ...

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

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

In four hundred years, though a Dunwich may disappear into the sea and the coastline may recede from Rye, the climate and contours of a country, except where human beings have deliberately taken a ...

The article in the Oxford Classical Dictionary on “Scholarship in modern Times”, by A. Souter, fails to mention Mommsen. This is astonishing. For “Roman history ... was put solidly on its feet a ...

In the century after the establishment of Burma’s last dynasty, by King Alaungpaya in 1752, the fortunes of the kingdom declined from its peak of imperial might. When it seemed reasonable to expect ...

Stratford canning was the most famous British Ambassador of the nineteenth century. Created Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe in 1852, he was the first professional diplomat to be honoured after his ...

Bagehot, writing in the 1850s, once declared that the world of the Six Acts (legislation aimed at limiting meetings of radicals) seemed so far removed from his countrymen that they could not ...

Great quarrels, it has been said, often arise from small occasions, but never from small causes. The Ministerial crisis that was precipitated on December 23rd, 1886, by the announcement of the ...