History Today

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.

Though denied credit Rosalind Franklin’s work on the molecular structure of DNA was pivotal to Watson and Crick’s discovery of the double helix.