Derek Keene obituary
Historian who painted a vivid picture of life in medieval cities such as London and Winchester
Was the fiddler framed? How Nero may have been a good guy after all
He was a demonic emperor who stabbed citizens at random and let Rome burn. Or was he? We go behind the scenes at a new show exploding myths about the ancient world’s favourite baddie
Great thinkers make sense of a world racked by contradictions
The likes of Edward Said knew that the crucial issues of the day must be seen in shades of grey, not black and white
Andrew Porter obituary
Historian who re-introduced the subject of religion into his studies of the British empire
Frances Harris obituary
Historian who made her name with biographies of leading figures in Stuart Britain
How Mary Wortley Montagu’s bold experiment led to smallpox vaccine – 75 years before Jenner
A new book celebrates the trailblazing work of the English aristocrat, who successfully inoculated her daughter
Jonathan Steinberg obituary
Historian whose work Bismarck: A Life is considered the best study of its subject in the English language
Researchers read sealed 17th-century letter without opening it
‘Virtual unfolding’ is hailed a breakthrough in the study of historic documents as unopened letter from 1697 is read for the first time using X-ray technology
Fears rise that Polish libel trial could threaten future Holocaust research
Case brought in wake of rightwing government criminalising blame of Polish nation for Nazi crimes could have implications for further research
Drexciya: how Afrofuturism is inspiring calls for an ocean memorial to slavery
The alternative Black history of a deep-sea civilisation planted the seed for ideas on how to memorialise the 1.8 million Africans who died in the Atlantic
Stephen Cohen obituary
US historian who argued that the Soviet Union could have been reformed and need not have ended when it did
Ned Willmott obituary
Other lives: Historian who brought sharp critical thinking to historiography
The new monuments we need? Your nan’s old dress or a Stormzy lyric carved in stone
Instead of stern, elevated statues, here are some ways I’d like to remember
Malcolm Chase obituary
Social historian who was a leading authority on the Chartists
Paul Addison obituary
Historian of British politics and society during and after the second world war