History Today

The 1980 Protect and Survive booklet opened government plans to ridicule.

An ‘almanac of destiny’ predicts the fortunes of the harvest.

Finding the grit in Brooklyn's gentrification.

Shedding past light on recent royal scandal, four historians consider the future of an ancient institution.

Anthropology's rise in popularity challenged previous ways of thinking about human development.

Three lives from Britain’s 18th-century global empire speak of collaboration, resistance and ambivalence.

Science and superstition collided when an apocalypse was predicted to strike the United States in December 1919.

The Plague was not just a medieval illness.

The most maligned of creatures, since ancient times, wolves have played a central role in mythology.

Carving our names on great monuments is a millennia-old tradition, but why do we do it?