Doing History

Note from the Editor: Here at History Matters we really do think that, well, history matters. We’re also aware of the huge range of ways history can be done, and histories can be told. From

This week a book I co-wrote with Tim Hitchcock was published. London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800, published in print and as an eBook, is intended to have an original

Soon after some fifty historians made a public statement against the rising intolerance against minorities in India, the attacks on them began. These ranged from calling them opportunists, minority-appeasers and pseudo-secularists, to calling into question

Just over a week ago, I came up with an idea for a campaign to raise my Twitter presence and share some of my research. I decided to tweet each of my new followers with

History Matters met Prof Laurent Turcot, historical advisor on Assassins Creed: Unity, to talk popular history, video games and controversy. Interview and translation by Anna Jenkin. Laurent, how did you become a historical advisor for

York’s Anglian era (ca. 400-867) lasted longer than the city's  Roman and Viking phases combined. And yet it has been almost entirely eclipsed, in the current local heritage offer and marketing, by the relentless promotion of