History Today

A gory, fascinating and highly original study of changing attitudes to death and dead bodies.

It is tempting to try to understand events such as Brexit through historical analogies, but how useful are these comparisons?

A skilfully woven synthesis tells the story of the castles, palaces and great houses of Tudor England.

A guide to the key moments in the history of the Crusades.

The 16th century was a time of crisis and change for Portugal’s empire.

The historian on her love for Mary Wollstonecraft, Locke’s manuscripts and why you should wash your hands.

French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was a hero to Beethoven, inspiring a revolutionary symphony. But disillusionment was soon to follow.

Behind the dominating presence of Frankenstein, the richness of Mary Shelley’s life is in danger of being lost.

Marcus Junius Brutus, the man who conspired to kill Julius Caesar, was not quite the friend to his fellow Romans that the legend suggests.

Henri Pirenne transformed the way historians think about the end of the Classical world and the beginning of the Middle Ages.