History Today

‘Those in power tend to dictate the way history gets written.’

The uncertainty, contingency and precarity of England’s incipient commercial and imperial ambitions.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité – oranges? What does Maximilien Robespierre’s fondness for citrus fruit reveal?

Long out of fashion, the term ‘Third World’ emerged amid the political polarisation of the Cold War. Now there is war in Europe again, and renewed talk of Non-Alignment. Does the ‘Global South’ exist?

Charles Dickens’ most enduring friendship was with his sister-in-law, who has been remembered as his housekeeper.

Depicting an ancient world in which Amazons fought alongside men, winds had distinct characters, and tortoises sang.

Americanised globalisation and the new world of Russian business in the 1990s.

The stage has a short memory, print a long one: 400 years since its first publication, Shakespeare’s First Folio is the reason we remember him.