History Today

Four historians consider how their discipline can best reach a mass audience. 

Journey with Travels Through Time to 10 December 1776. Kate Fullagar recounts the day as lived by the Cherokee diplomat and warrior, Ostenaco; the Raiatean Voyager, Mai and the artist who painted them, Joshua Reynolds. 

‘The most common misconception about my field is that classicists study a past that no longer impacts on our world today.’

In this episode of Travels Through Time historian and author, Diane Atkinson, takes us onto the streets and into the homes of Britain’s most militant suffragettes. 

A mythological creature of extraordinary resilience.

In the first episode of our new podcast, Travels Through Time, Michael Palin takes us aboard HMS Erebus.

In the first of a new series, we ask historians one of the burning questions of the day. 

The fall of man and the concept of Original Sin.

From the Thirty Years War to the ancient civilisation of Iran, from Anglo-American rivalries in the desert to the persecution of indigenous peoples, historians select their favourite books of the past year.

‘People can surprise you. They often don’t fit into the categories we impose on them.’