History Today

The pandemic has created a dividing line for our time, like many others in the past.

A new translation finds Beowulf comfortably at home in the 21st century.

Those who kept a diary in 2020 have provided a service to posterity.  

The real history of wine can be a dry – even bitter – beverage.

Even the retail sector became part of the second Five Year Plan imposed on the Soviet Union by Stalin.  

Should the finger of blame be pointed at the marmot for the global spread of the plague?  

A kaleidoscopic tour of the Volga and the history of the people who have resided by it.

The immortal Titan abandoned to his eternal fate.

Dmitri Mendeleev identified a general theory underlying all elements on 1 March 1869.

On 27 February 380, divine punishment and imperial retribution were threatened for those who rejected the Nicene creed.