Historical

On the Spot: David Olusoga

By History Today

We ask leading historians 20 questions on why their research matters, one book everyone should read and their views on the Tudors ... [[{"fid":"31481","view_mode":"float_right","fields":{"format":"float_right","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"David Olusoga"},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"title":"David Olusoga","class":"media-element file-float-right"}}]]David Olusoga is a historian and broadcaster. He was the recipient of the Longman-History Today Trustees' Award 2017 for his outstanding contribution to history. His most recent TV documentary was [...]

Something More than an Art

By Suzannah Lipscomb

Both history and historical fiction depend on a combination of imagination and rigorous research. The difference is found in the balance of these ingredients. Hilary Mantel, in her formidably brilliant Reith Lectures, has set out to remind us of the unknowability of the past: unknowable because of the partiality of the surviving evidence, that all [...]

On this day in 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as America's 32nd president, is nominated for an unprecedentedthird term. Roosevelt, a Democrat, would eventually be elected to a record four terms in office, the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms.

Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, and went on to serve as a New York state senator from 1911 to 1913, assistant secretary [...]

Last Friday, July 7th, a construction crew working on a building site at the corner of Hamel and Couillard streets in Old Quebec, the historic center of Quebec City, Canada, unearthed a large cannonball from the French and Indian War. The crew took pictures of themselves with the 200-pound projectile as if it were a movie star. They moved it around, struck poses and generally had a blast with their discovery.

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The Music of Time: Angelic Choirs and Devilish Voices

By Alexander Lee

It is not just the Christian musical tradition that has struggled to differentiate between the sacred and the profane. [[{"fid":"31491","view_mode":"float_right","fields":{"format":"float_right","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Sacred voices: an angelic musician, fresco by Melozzo da Forli, 15th century. © Bridgeman Images."},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"title":"Sacred voices: an angelic musician, fresco by Melozzo da Forli, 15th century. © Bridgeman Images.","class":"media-element file-float-right"}}]]As a young [...]