Skip to main content
Home

User menu logged out

  • Subscribe
  • Sign in

Subscription
Offers

Give a Gift

Main menu

  • Home
  • The Magazine
  • Subscribe
  • Buy the Current Issue
  • Explore the Digital Archive
  • Institutions
  • Reviews
  • Sign in
Home

Mini header menu

  • Search
  • Magazine
  • Latest
  • Subscribe

Subscribe

Explore the Digital Archive

The digital archive contains everything published by History Today since the magazine was founded in 1951. Begin browsing below, or use our search. 

Students can also visit our resources page here. 

Browse by Period

  • WWII
    Second World War
  • AmericanCivilWar.jpg
    American Civil War
  • romanempire.jpg
    Roman Empire
  • Tudor.jpg
    Tudor

View all Periods

Browse by Theme

  • Archeology
    Archaeology
  • MLK
    Civil Rights
  • Religion
    Religion
  • parliament.jpg
    Political

View all Themes

Browse by Location

  • Germany
    Germany
  • USA
    USA
  • India
    India
  • UK
    Britain

View all Locations

British & English Monarchs

  • charlesi.jpg
    Charles I
  • Victoria
    Victoria
  • elizabethi.jpg
    Elizabeth I
  • henryviii.jpg
    Henry VIII

View all Monarchs

British Prime Ministers

  • Robert Walpole
    Sir Robert Walpole
  • Thatcher.jpg
    Margaret Thatcher
  • Churchill.jpg
    Winston Churchill
  • disraeli.jpg
    Benjamin Disraeli

View all Prime Ministers

US Presidents

  • washington.jpg
    George Washington
  • Lincoln.jpg
    Abraham Lincoln
  • woodrow.jpg
    Woodrow Wilson
  • roosevelt.jpg
    Theodore Roosevelt

View all Presidents

Browse by issue

  • March 1961

    Volume 11 Issue 3 March 1961

  • mar2012.jpg

    Volume 62 Issue 3 March 2012

  • March 1983

    Volume 33 Issue 3 March 1983

  • May 1994

    Volume 44 Issue 5 May 1994

View all issues

 

 

Popular from the Archive

  • Benito Mussolini at a ceremony for the Italian Academy of Physical Education in Rome, 1940. Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe. Public Domain.
    Benito Mussolini’s Theatre of Fascism
  • Giuliano de' Medici (left) and Lorenzo de' Medici. Portraits by Botticelli and an unknown artist
    The Medici Brothers 1469-78
  • Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, then governor of Massachusetts, 1920. Library of Congress. Public Domain.
    ‘Silent Cal’: Reassessing Calvin Coolidge
  • A commemorative album of photographs from Gandhi’s Salt March, c. 1930. British Library. Public Domain.
    Gandhi, Non-Violence and Indian Independence

Popular Articles

Plato’s Cave, Flemish school, 16th century. Bridgeman Images.
Plato’s Last Word to Dionysius
Pepresentatives of the French government at the war crimes trial in Leipzig, 1921. Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo/Alamy Stock Photo.
The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials
The Battle of the Somme, by Sir David Muirhead Bone, 1916. Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery. Public Domain.
The Permanent Stain of the Somme
Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers, Édouard Manet, 1865. Art Institute of Chicago. Public Domain.
‘Miracles and Wonder’ by Elaine Pagels review
A parade by young inmates at Feltham Borstal, Middlesex, 1911. PA Photos/TopFoto.
England’s Prison Population Problems
St Matthew writing, the Lindisfarne Gospels, 710-20. British Library/Bridgeman Images.
Artificial Inspiration
X
Get Miscellanies, our free weekly long read, in your inbox every week

Footer menu

  • About
  • Masthead
  • Contact
  • Jobs
  • Advertising
  • RSS feeds
  • Submit an Article
  • Back Issues
  • Binders
  • Cookie policy
  • Awards
  • Students
  • Privacy policy
  • Terms of Use
  • X
  • Instagram
  • Bluesky
  • Facebook

© Copyright 2025 History Today Ltd. Company no. 1556332.