History Matters

The Paris Olympics of 1900 celebrated not just sporting excellence, but France’s might.

Was Sir Thomas More born on Milk Street – and does it matter?

The people of late medieval and early modern England were almost universally numerate. Is our ability to count the thing that makes us human?

Could a text thought to be by Shakespeare’s father actually be his sister’s writing?

A tour of Europe cemented Ronald Reagan’s reputation as an international statesman and helped secure his re-election.

The decision to make Native Americans citizens of the United States was not straightforwardly progressive.

The Cyrillic alphabet is celebrated across the Slavonic-speaking world, but not only as an appreciation of literacy – it has a political dimension too.

When the English and Nazi German football teams met for the first time on British soil in 1935, the game was not the headline.

The Loch Ness Monster’s first appearance on film captured both the hype and the scepticism surrounding cinema’s newest star.

Despite their reputation, London’s private members’ clubs have never been entirely for men.