Today’s featured articles
The advent of telecommunications in the 19th century gave rise to a new literary genre through which female telegraphers and writers found social freedoms.
During the Cold War successive British governments did all they could to maintain a friendship with Tito’s Yugoslavia. Why was the communist strongman so important to Westminster?
Edward the Confessor, a model of medieval piety, was a surprisingly effective ruler, relying on the Normans to keep the powerful Godwine dynasty at bay.
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The Rise and Fall of the US Army Camel Corps
The vast deserts of the American West posed logistical problems for the US Army. Camels offered a novel solution.
‘The Revolution to Come’ and ‘Revolutions: A New History’ review
Two recent books, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein and Revolutions: A New History by Donald Sassoon, illustrate the past and future of revolutionary studies.
New Year Readers’ Resolutions
How to read more? We might take instruction from a more leisurely age.
The Last Emirate of Spain
The emirate of Granada – Islam’s last polity in Spain – was surrendered to the Catholic monarchs on 2 January 1492.
The Death of Charles the Bad
On 1 January 1387 Charles II, the medieval king of Navarre, died as he had lived – with great violence.
The First Christmas Celebration
On 25 December 336 Rome’s believers celebrated Christmas Day – the earliest recorded use of that date as it spread across Christendom.
Understanding the Northern Lights
When the aurora borealis appeared in the skies of 18th-century Europe, Enlightenment scientists first turned to history to understand it.
How Has Public History Changed Since 1951?
75 years is a long time in public history: the bridge between academia and the general reader appears to have widened since History Today was launched, but in what ways?
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Cold War Yugoslavia, Oswald of Northumbria, the wreck of San José, educating the Maharaja of Travancore, understanding the Aurora Borealis, and more.
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