The History Files

The History Files has been online since the beginning of 1999.

In the early days changes to the front page were intermittent, while most of the work effort was being directed at building the king lists. Lacking any real difference, these earlier pages are not particularly exciting to look at. From 2002 regular changes began to be made to the new list of latest developments. Initially this list was placed at the foot of the page, but in November 2003 it was moved to the sidebar, beginning a style that remains in use to this day.

With the largescale overhaul of the entire site from the start of 2007, and the advent of 'banner features', things became very different. Since then, there has been at least one new banner feature per month - sometimes more - and the archives have filled out as a result.

Archives

Archived front pages are indexed by year and date. Click on the link for a particular date and the page will open in a new window or tab. Unfortunately there are some gaps, noticeably for 2005, where front pages are completely unavailable. For much of that year the style used in 2004 was maintained, until it was replaced with a new style late in the year which was maintained throughout 2006.

Please note that some links on older pages may no longer be valid.

2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999
	27 Sep 30 Aug 02 Aug 28 Jun 31 May 27 Apr 04 Apr 02 Mar 09 Feb 17 Jan 06 Jan	16 Dec 17 Nov 07 Oct 08 Sep 26 Aug 12 Aug 21 Jul 08 Jul 01 Jul 17 Jun 10 Jun 03 Jun 27 May 25 May 18 May 09 May 05 May 12 Apr 04 Mar 26 Feb 05 Jan	31 Dec 21 Oct 24 Sep 17 Jul 15 Jun 06 Mar 13 Feb	N/A*	09 Dec 11 Jun 24 Jan	20 Nov 02 Oct 10 Aug 04 Jun 04 Apr 07 Feb 24 Jan	16 Dec 03 Oct 02 Jun 11 Apr 13 Mar	03 Jun	01 Nov 22 Jun	01 Apr

* No front pages from 2005 (or much of 2004) are available. If you have access to any of these please contact us.