History Today

The publishers of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness were prosecuted for obscenity on 9 November 1928.

Stripping Edward the Confessor of his independence.

A search for the first doctor.

Man and woman become one in a visionary and resonant myth.

Rhodesia’s ill-fated independence, 55 years on.

Olympe de Gouges was executed for sedition on the order of the Revolutionary Tribunal on 3 November 1793.

A fresh account of Ernest Bevin, who operated at the summit of British public life for almost three decades.

Erasing women writers in the name of uplifting them.

With big costumes and bigger audiences, pageants were the pastime of choice in the early 20th century.

Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens has long been overshadowed by Isaac Newton. But he is the better example of a modern scientist.