Niall Ferguson: school history lessons ‘lack all cohesion’
Historian says too few pupils are spending too little time studying history, particularly in state schools
Robert Markus obituary
Medieval history scholar who helped establish the idea of Late Antiquity
How Dickens and Doré forecast our winter of discontent
Jonathan Jones: Victorian artists depicted the horrors of inequality as no previous age had ever done. Their work is a warning to the coalition not to repeat the dark side of the 19th century
Leonardo and the battle of Michelangelo’s penis
Jonathan Jones: My love for microhistory inspired me to uncover Leonardo da Vinci's attempt to shroud the greatest nude statue ever
World’s most expensive book comes up for sale
Sotheby's to auction Audubon's Birds of America and Shakespeare's First Folio from estate of late Lord Hesketh
Carola Hicks obituary
Art historian and biographer, her work infused large, iconic subjects with new life
Niall Ferguson is wrong about the national curriculum
Response: History departments are thriving under a flexible framework, write Sarah Hannam and Jane Cavanagh
The incomparable Simon Schama – star of page, then screen
Jonathan Jones: Enough snobbery over his TV career. As Schama's books show, he created the path lesser historians stumblingly follow
In praise of… world histories
Editorial: Most history these days deploys the metaphorical magnifying glass. All hail, then, to those rare scholars who rescue the wood from the trees
My new hobby? Developing interests. Or trying to. It’s not easy though – an old pot is just an old pot
Charlie Brooker: I wish I was into history, but I'm not. Besides robbing me of hours of potential hobby time, this lack of historical interest leaves me feeling guilty and uninformed
Writings from Warsaw
Historian Samuel Kassow tells John Crace that by recording their life in the ghetto, Jews defied Nazi efforts to destroy them
The essential Bible stories
The top five stories from the good book
Book of revelation
All children should be taught the Bible at school, says Andrew Motion. Without the great stories, they cannot hope to understand history and literature. Janet Murray reports