History Today

A squalid incident in Tipperary set the tone for a bitter conflict.

No one understood the literary dimension of conflict better than Michael Howard.

The multifarious motives of Europe’s Ottoman scholars.

Successful leaders or rapacious, racist, corrupt adventurers? A history of the East India Company.

A selection of our favourite articles from the past year.

The global struggle to resist the banalities of mass tourism.

Britain’s National Parks are a forgotten legacy of postwar reconstruction.

When we ask historians which genre of history they like least, the most common answer is ‘economic’. Is the field unjustly maligned?

Three wise men, guided by a star, search for the new-born Christ.