History Today

In 1940 India was vital to British interests, explains Robert Mason, but it was to prove a delicate political matter to find a suitable viceroy to look after those interests.

David Starkey looks at the early Tudor period.

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.