History Today

Defying categorisation since its discovery, was the platypus a mammal, a reptile, or something else? 

Renia Kukielka, the Warsaw ghetto uprising and more in The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion.

Four historians consider whether the experience of the pandemic has changed their views on the nature of historical crises.

When people are returned to the historical record, they regain their humanity.

How events in British India were leveraged in the debate over slavery.

A Victorian homage to a Renaissance master became one of the world’s most reproduced images. 

The spiritual power of medieval relics meant that Jerusalem, or a dragon, could be remade anywhere.

Wedged between Russia, Prussia and Austria, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth faced extinction in the 18th century.

Illustrated picture books in Victorian England reached new aesthetic heights. But was it always for the benefit of the children?