Volume: 62 Issue: 9

The recent attempt at House of Lords’ reform and the capacity of the issue to do serious damage to the cohesion of the governing coalition invites comparisons with...

Cromwell’s military campaign in Ireland is one event that the British can never remember and the Irish can never forget. Tom Reilly questions one of the most...

The popular image of crusading is derived almost entirely from western accounts of the victorious First Crusade. Yet when historians examine Byzantine sources...

In recent years the reputation of Mary Seacole as a pioneering nurse of the Crimean War has been elevated far beyond the bounds of her own ambition. Meanwhile that...

Jane Everson highlights the social networks of the Italian academies, the first of their kind in Renaissance Europe.

The full text of Jonathan Steinberg's interview with History Today editor Paul Lay.

In our final round up of histories of the nations that make up the British Isles – or, if you prefer, the Atlantic Archipelago – Maria Luddy examines an event...

A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay.

Roger Hudson reflects on a photograph of Blondin, the tightrope walker whose crossings of Niagara Falls became ever more bizarre.

Colin Greenstreet describes a new collaboration to transcribe and enhance 17th-century records of the High Court of Admiralty.

The story of penicillin is well known, as are those Nobel Prize winners who were honoured for their part in its discovery. But one man’s contribution has been...

‘Black’ propaganda in south-east Europe took many forms during the Second World War. Ioannis Stefanidis looks at top secret British attempts to undermine Nazi...

The battle of Cuito Cuanavale was a key moment in the smokescreen conflict of the Cold War played out in southern Africa. Gary Baines looks at the ways in which...

Recent episodes in Russia paint a disturbing picture in which the Little Father’s actions and legacy are undergoing rehabilitation, says Emily Whitaker.

Mayer Amschel Rothschild died on September 19th 1812.

Bilbo Baggins first strode onto the world stage on September 21st, 1937.

Sarah Fraser examines Bruce Lenman’s 1980 article on Jacobite exiles, part of a vigorous, influential rebuttal of a worn-out image.

Enter our crossword and win the audiobook The Ration Book Olympics: When London Hosted the Austerity Games.

Changing sides during the British Civil Wars was more common than once thought, claims Andrew Hopper, and played an important part in determining the outcome of...

A comprehensive look at the changing scientific and medical beliefs about depression and mental illness.

A new book focuses on the deeper complexities and contradictions of British/Irish identity, with rewarding results.

The need to manage the water supply has always been a driver of human history, argues Steven Mithen. 

A biography of the 'playboy prince' who became King.

An absorbing account of the rise and fall of supersonic passenger aircraft.

A new group biography on the challenges of exploring 'gay lives' in the past.

Was the 'weakest link' in the Atlantic Alliance of the 1980s the relationship between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher?

An engaging biography of John Dee, the Elizabethan mathematician, book-collector, alchemist and occult philosopher.

This month we have questions on the Black Death, a South American war and the US presidential retreat.

How the Mongol Empire brought much of the world closer together.

A professional Egyptologist debunks some of the more popular myths and theories surrounding the Egyptian king.