History Today

Many historical analogies have been drawn to explain the Trump phenomenon. Though few have compared him to Abraham Lincoln, both promised to shape an economy that benefited white working men. 

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were 16 empires of varying size and reach. At the end of the century, there was just one: the United States. How did this happen and what role did Britain play in smoothing America’s path to global hegemony?

The Conquest of Mexico was justified by the Spanish as an evil necessary to save a people who practised human sacrifice and worshipped false gods. 

In the first of a new series, we ask historians one of the burning questions of the day. 

Relations between Iran and Britain have often been strained. Yet the relationship is an old one, marked by mutual admiration.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, patients were encouraged to snuff, snort and sneeze their way out of a whole range of ailments and illnesses. 

A professionally organised covert industry satisfied the public’s demand for illicit books in the years before the French Revolution.

Is it possible for dissidents to bring peaceful change to repressive regimes?

Turning chaotic havens of sloth and debauchery into systemised institutions of pain and terror, Victorian Britain’s ‘model’ prisons were anything but.

Norwich prospered in the 16th century, thanks to an influx of immigrants, who arrived fleeing persecution.