Professor Hakim Adi shortlisted for prestigious Wolfson award

The nomination for Adi,the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, is a vindication for the academic who was made redundant a week ago

Which person has had the greatest impact on the course of the 21st century so far?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

Crumbs and cat poo: Renaissance women’s ‘astonishing’ beauty tips revealed

The era is known for the white mask of makeup worn by Queen Elizabeth I, but academics reveal that cosmetic recipes then were more sophisticated than previously thought

‘Heart-stopping’: censored pages of history of Elizabeth I reappear after 400 years

British Library uses new technique to uncover passages of Camden’s Annals, the first official account of Elizabeth’s reign

Hever Castle to display 16th-century prayer book believed to be Thomas Cromwell’s from Holbein portrait

There are three copies of the 1527 Book of Hours in existence, two of which belonged to Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn

Patrick Renshaw obituary

Other lives: Historian of American politics and labour who produced a major study of the General Strike

Rod Kedward obituary

Historian who brought to light the important role of rural communities in the French resistance during the second world war

Elain Harwood obituary

Architectural historian who championed the preservation of England’s postwar buildings and the brutalist style

Donald Hinds obituary

Writer, teacher and historian whose book Journey to an Illusion provided an insight into the lives of postwar Black immigrants

Anne Boleyn’s reputation as ‘temptress’ to be recast in new exhibition

Henry VIII’s second wife was a deeply religious woman who resisted his advances for years, according to fresh research

Christopher Ligota obituary

Other lives: Academic and librarian at the Warburg Institute, University of London, who made a substantial contribution to the field of historiography

Myth America review: superb group history of the lies that built a nation

Julian Zelizer and Kevin Kruse marshal a fine array of historians for a bestselling assault on rightwing nonsense

‘This is rock-star history!’ – Antony Beevor on the gung-ho brilliance of SAS Rogue Heroes

Rebels, renegades, repressed homosexuals, drunks, poets and a cross-dressing spy … the great historian is loving the BBC’s thrillingly faithful account of the fighting force’s origins – including its heavy metal soundtrack

To change our future, we should change how we teach history to children

We adults may not be able to unlearn the damaging stories we were told, but we can halt their march through the generations, says author Yuval Noah Harari

War in Ukraine, death of the Queen, Elon Musk … why are Nostradamus’s ‘predictions’ still winning converts?

You name it, the 16th-century prophet supposedly foresaw it – right down to the death of Elizabeth II, which has made a bestseller of a book interpreting his cryptic verses. It’s time to sift facts from fantasy …