History Today

Was power really devolved to Scotland in 1660, asks John Patrick, when the restoration of Charles II led to the recreation of separate Scottish institutions?

Norman Davis explains how Poland's geography has been the villain of her history.

It was not only for Wordsworth that Thomas Chatterton was a ‘marvellous Boy’, for the image of his death became a potent and much-used symbol of romanticism and alienation in Victorian England.

Of varying meaning, the Hindi or Mahratti term is used in Anglophone countries around the world.

Paul Preston looks at the historiography of the Spanish Civil War.

Sir Horace Wilson broke the tradition of the anonymous civil servant. During the Munich crisis he became a controversial and for some a hated figure. This article looks behind the myth to the man.

Frederick Hobley remembers his nineteenth-century school and university days.

The British like to think they created modern India, but the firm foundation of the Indian state and the growth of a powerful Indian national identity is no less the achievement of the Indian Congress Party, a fact reflected in the similarities between the Congress flag before independence and the flag of the Republic of India.

The transition of Henry VIII from Renaissance monarch to the Reformation patriarch, supreme head of the Church of England can be charted through the visual images of spectacle and power emanating from the royal court.