Other lives: Museum curator with an interest in military history, who wrote a book on the 16th Lancers in India
December 2024
‘I’m a mixed Black female historical re-enactor in a sea of men with beards’
Not everyone would want to spend their weekends dressed in a tunic fighting medieval battles, but my love of re-enacting is rooted in keeping history alive
November 2024
‘Gentlemen shared their tattoos over dinner’: how our taste for tattoos started with the rich
Highly decorated skin is everywhere these days, but tattoos have a more elevated pedigree than you may think. A new book aims to make us think differently about Victorian aristocrats … and bank managers
September 2024
Other lives
Alan Betteridge obituary
Other lives: Highly knowledgable West Yorkshire archivist who brought the diaries of Anne Lister to public attention
English Heritage asks public for help to recover London’s ‘lost’ plaques
War damage, demolition and refurbishment blamed for disappearing roundels now themselves part of history
Where’s British pride in our contribution to science and the Enlightenment?
Letters: Andrew King and David Redshaw respond to the results of a survey that tracked pride in Britain’s history
July 2024
Historic British seaside hotels are glorious white elephants, but perhaps they can have new lives
Rowan Moore
Giant structures in an array of far-fetched architectural styles rose with coming of railways and declined with popularity of air travel, writes Rowan Moore
June 2024
TV review
Suranne Jones: Investigating Witch Trials review – the misogyny will make you want to smash furniture
TV review
Adam Lambert: Out, Loud and Proud review – give this compelling singer his own podcast series
May 2024
Track Record by George the Poet review – Black artistry and home truths
The spoken word artist and podcaster’s hybrid of social history and rallying cry is heartfelt, if occasionally hectoring
April 2024
Notes and queries
Readers reply: who has been treated most unfairly by history?
Notes and queries
Who has been treated most unfairly by history?
Domestic bliss: legends in their own living rooms – in pictures
Boom and bust in the industrial north-east – in pictures
February 2024
Book of the day
Revolutionary Acts by Jason Okundaye review – bringing Black gay history to life
This groundbreaking debut tells the stories of six radicals who were among the first out Black gay men in Britain
January 2024
‘Poetic glimpses of postwar America’: Garry Winogrand’s colourful streets – in pictures
The influential street photographer was known for his black-and-white images, but a new book collects the dazzling colour slides he captured from the 1950s onwards
November 2023
‘Your wife wants to see you’: 18th-century Spanish letters seized at sea by British published online
Correspondence taken from 130 captured ships reveal details of the stories of seafarers and their families in the 1700s
October 2023
Jose Harris obituary
From poverty clogs to killer heels: the 1,000-year story of British footwear
September 2023
Social history, sewn up: English street scenes embroidered – in pictures
British social history captured in embroidery by artist Lynn Setterington.
