November 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the first passenger trains between London and Paris. What does the history of the Channel Tunnel tell us about Britain’s relationship with its neighbours?

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 England. Three years later a sum variously recorded as £16,000 or £22,000 ...

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 ...

Gina Anne Tam is Associate Professor of History and Co-Chair of Women and Gender Studies at Trinity University, San Antonio.

Omar G. Encarnación is Charles Flint Kellogg Professor of Politics at Bard College and author of Democracy Without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) ...

In late 1945 and 1946 reporters from around the world were accommodated at a peculiar-looking castle in the Franconian town of Stein. It was an appropriate setting. The castle belonged to a dynasty of ...

When Abbot Abbo of Fleury agreed to travel to Gascony to advise on the reform of the monastery of La Réole, he would not have expected that his trip would result in his death. Yet in 1004 Abbo was the ...

In the 1860s a young architect arrives in a small town in southern England. He has been sent to renovate the town’s great church, a splendid medieval building which has fallen into disrepair. The roof ...