History Today

Africa has been global for millennia, but its history is too often eclipsed by narratives that focus on slavery and its abolition.

In Victorian Britain, attitudes towards race, gender, disability and Empire were all to be found in the popular ‘freak shows’.

At the centre of a war-shattered Europe, Vienna was divided between the victorious Allied powers. Restoring civil society proved a major challenge. 

From the pit to Pythagoras, the self-made man rose to the top of the mathematical world and divided it in two. 

In the revolutionary reign of the “Tsar-Stranger”, one of the most of the most significant episodes was his visit to the England of William III.

On the women who made imperial Rome.

The Thai-Burma railway was built by prisoners of war in appalling conditions. The dead were treated with a dignity denied to the living.

Venetian officials sought to stem a ‘plague’ of sodomy by promoting the heterosexual sex trade.

An Icelandic scholar exemplifies the rich cultural exchanges of the Middle Ages. 

Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present by Jonathan L. Lee is a history fit from the Taliban.