Happy Birthday Jane Austen!

As Google celebrates Jane Austen’s 235^th birthday, Sarah Ingrams examines the rise and fall of her popularity.

“We may have lost the football, but we won the war!”

Reetta Humalajoki discusses whether it is appropriate to turn to history for consolation in moments of sporting defeat.

Faking the Footsteps of Montezuma

The evidence of the future: changing our view of the past

Days That Shook the Communist World: Hungary Commemorates the Anniversary of the 1956 Revolution

Peter Snow on Wellington, War and Military History

London’s First Theatre: Life Outside the Limelight

Step Back Into Durham

“Then they came for me”