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by Charlotte Crow, Howard Brenton’s new play Anne Boleyn , which has just opened at the Globe Theatre directed by John Dove, pays homage to ...

by Kathryn Hadley, The Peterloo Relief Fund Account Book is one of the first documents to be inscribed on the UK Memory of the World Registe...

by Kathryn Hadley, Last Wednesday, July 21st, forensic scientists in Romania exhumed what are believed to be the remains of the former dicta...

by Kathryn Hadley, The University of Birmingham announced this morning the discovery of a new henge less than one kilometre away from Stoneh...

by Kathryn Hadley, Sunday marked the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, on July 11th, 1995, when the town was attacked by Bosnian ...

by Kathryn Hadley, The piece of wood engraved with Sir Isaac Newton’s initials from the tree which inspired him to formulate the theory of g...

by Kathryn Hadley, In February last year, the French council of state, the Conseil d’Etat, recognised for the first time the responsibility...

by Kathryn Hadley, If the English team is eliminated after this afternoon’s match, it will be the first time that England has been eliminate...

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, celebrated with British Prime Minister David Cameron today, June 18th, the 70th anniversary of de Gau...

by Kathryn Hadley, A press reception was organised this morning at the House of Lords to mark the completion of a project begun in January 2...

FCO historian Dr Isabelle Tombs introduces the FCO's first online exhibition, 'The Duel for Europe, 1800-1830'. by Isabelle Tomb...

by Kathryn Hadley ‘Will unsullied evidence ever be obtained on which definitive judgements can be made? Will not the emotiveness of the even...

by Kathryn Hadley A brief background to the report On Sunday January 30th, 1972, 14 people died when British soldiers opened fire on civil r...

by Kathryn Hadley, Has the mystery of York’s headless Romans, which has puzzled archaeologists for over six years, finally been solved? In 2...

by Kathryn Hadley, Chile’s ambassador to Argentina, Miguel Otero, resigned on Tuesday evening, just 48 hours after the Argentine newspaper C...

Charlotte Crow and Sheila Corr, deputy and picture editors at History Today , give their first impressions of Tate Britain's latest exhi...

Our editor Paul Lay comments on a hidden Tintoretto painting, which goes on public dispaly for the first time, today, at the National Trust...

Our deputy editor, Charlotte Crow, reviews a new digital picture archive, Historypin , launched last week. by Charlotte Crow, What aims to b...

by Kathryn Hadley, A rare medieval prayer roll that once belonged to Henry VIII goes on display, today, in the British Library ’s Sir John R...

By Sheila Corr, ‘Snapshot’ started as a term used in firing a gun, which reminds us, together with other familiar photographic terms such as...

by Kathryn Hadley Today marks the 70th anniversary of Operation Dynamo and the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk. Following the rapid...

by Kathryn Hadley The names and details of half a million UK radicals and religious dissenters covering a period of 225 years have been made...

by Kathryn Hadley - Nearly half (47%) of 18-24 year olds don’t know that the Romans built Hadrian’s Wall. - Nearly half (45%) of 18-24 yea...

by Kathryn Hadley In 2007, the former MP and journalist Matthew Parris claimed that ‘no British prime minister in history has ever done anyt...

by Paul Lay, Next Friday (May 28th) sees the opening of the Galleries of Modern London at the Museum of London. It aims to tell the story of...