History Today

The fluid and unfixed Byzantine Empire.

Beginning in March 1971, the Bangladesh War of Independence led to East Pakistan becoming a new nation state. Four experts assess the war’s legacy. 

Was Franklin D. Roosevelt ‘dealing with the devil’ in his relationships with segregationist politicians or was his ‘the art of the possible’?

A narrative history from the peak of Hitler’s powers up to his demise.

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?