History

My book relied on archives. Keep them open

The BBC is to restrict archive access – which is hopeless for researchers

The friendly rivalry between Churchill and De Gaulle

The Last Titans reveals the wartime leaders to be men at distinct odds but with a common cause

Battle for the soul of Taiwan

The island’s democracy poses a powerful challenge to China. But its increasingly polarised politics spell danger

History’s women have more to tell us than their fashion choices

A manifesto for British folk culture

Lally MacBeth’s The Lost Folk urges us to take care of our most precious traditions before they disappear

Ancient wines in Armenia

A dramatically beautiful country where history runs deep – and so do its grapevines

I knew the axe we’d found was old ... but that old?

When her husband picked up a stone axe in a flint-strewn field near their home in Dorset, Emily H Wilson experienced a rare ‘woo-woo’ moment. Could the hand that made it really have belonged to a Neanderthal?