History Today

To support ex-servicemen injured during the First World War, charities like St Dunstan’s found creative ways of fundraising. 

Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck brings Southeast Asia’s ‘invisible revolution’ into the light.

Did the Greeks really trick their way into Troy inside a gigantic wooden horse?

March is the loudest month. The late survival of a dialect name – Lide – for the month poses a medieval puzzle. 

Was the Earth flatter around the poles or the Equator? In 1735 two expeditions set out to settle a matter of national pride.

In Rites of Passage: Death & Mourning in Victorian Britain, Judith Flanders explores the commercialisation of grief and those who resisted the era’s conspicuous consumption.

The 14th century was a period of great upheaval. People yearned for the good old days, when everyone knew their place, prices were lower and kings were better.

Four historians evaluate perceptions of Rome’s eastern successor beyond the piety, icons, bureaucracy and gold of Byzantium.

An exiled revolutionary, André Rigaud’s return to the island of his birth changed Haiti’s political destiny. Was he sent back to help reinstate slavery? His enemies would have us believe so.

‘What historical topic have I changed my mind on? I used to give the powerful a lot of agency and the oppressed little.’