Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

History

May 2024

  • Portrait of a primeval caveman wearing an animal skin in a cave, holding a lit torch

    Notes and queries
    Readers reply: what was humanity’s first word?

  • Chris Williams

    Other lives
    Chris Williams obituary

  • Cave people in furs look at the camera

    Notes and queries
    What was humanity’s first word?

  • Archaeologists digging at new site at the Ness of Brodgar near the ring of Brodgar standing stones.

    Neolithic site in Orkney to be reburied after 20 years of excavation

  • Goldsmiths University to keep Black British literature course open

  • Award-winning UK teacher aims to show adults their historical blind spots

  • Other lives
    Peter Searby obituary

  • UK university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts

  • Is this the answer to the Roman dodecahedron puzzle that has archaeologists stumped?

  • A new cold war? World war three? How do we navigate this age of confusion?

    Timothy Garton Ash

  • The Audio Long Read
    Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history – podcast

April 2024

  • Roger Boase

    Other lives
    Roger Boase obituary

  • Margaret Morris

    Other lives
    Margaret Morris obituary

  • Colorized engraving shows a portrait of British poet and writer George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), early 1800s. (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)

    Two centuries on, Greece loves Byron more than ever

  • Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra (1963)

    Notes and queries
    Readers reply: who has been treated most unfairly by history?

  • Notes and queries
    Who has been treated most unfairly by history?

  • Shock of the old
    Shock of the old: 10 pairs of filthy, fetishistic and fashionable shoes

  • Other lives
    Stephen Mitchell obituary

  • Industrial Revolution began in 17th not 18th century, say academics

March 2024

  • David Smith dressed as Henry VIII

    Experience
    Experience: I’m a full-time Henry VIII impersonator

    Some schoolkids are clearly nervous. One asked if I’d ever killed a child
About 1,570 results for History
1234...
Explore more on these topics