Today’s featured articles
Henry VIII’s break with Rome was a watershed moment for England and for Christendom. Did the papacy have itself to blame?
The Raj’s control of India’s princely states was never absolute, as the British-appointed tutor to the last maharajah of Travancore discovered.
Illustrated picture books in Victorian England reached new aesthetic heights. But was it always for the benefit of the children?
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Did Sauropods Walk or Waddle?
Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest land animals ever to have lived – but how did they live?
Indonesia’s Heroic History
Indonesian national heroes are state approved. Is Suharto, an old president with a history of violence, worthy of the title?
Kent Philpott and the Origins of Conversion Therapy
1960s San Francisco is remembered as the capital of gay liberation, but it also saw the birth of conversion therapy.
A 75th Anniversary Letter from the Editors
History Today was first published 75 years ago this month to make sense of a world undergoing ‘bewilderingly swift’ change.
‘On Pedantry’ by Arnoud S.Q. Visser review
On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser explores the long history of anti-intellectualism from the death of Socrates to the culture wars.
Letters from Our Readers on the 75th Anniversary
History Today was first published on 12 January 1951. Our readers and contributors share their memories of the magazine 75 years on.
The Ambassador, the Spy, and the Chocolatier
The 18th-century Dutch Republic was a hotbed of secretive Jacobite networks producing seditious pamphlets.
‘The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders’ by Laura L. Gathagan review
The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, c.1031-1083: Embodying Conquest by Laura L. Gathagan traces the material legacy of the Conqueror’s consort.
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In the 75th Anniversary issue:
Cold War Yugoslavia, Oswald of Northumbria, the wreck of San José, educating the Maharaja of Travancore, understanding the Aurora Borealis, and more.
Plus: reviews, opinion, crossword and much more!
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