Norman Hampson obituary

Revisionist historian of the French Revolution

British Library digs out decorative paintings to brighten up dark ages

Library will display treasures such as illuminated royal transcripts and a 13th century pilgrimage route map as part of new show

John G Rule obituary

Social historian of life and labour in Georgian and Victorian Britain

Richard Holmes obituary

Military historian and TA brigadier, he focused on the lives of troops on the frontline

Leo Steinberg obituary

Art historian and critic known for his elegant investigations of Renaissance paintings

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