History Today

Britons like to think that they all pulled together during the Second World War, but as Clive Emsley shows, some of the work force, in particular those employed in the nation’s ports, were just as likely to be pulling a fast one.

The contribution of Indian troops to one of the first major battles on the Western Front. 

Tim Stanley describes the Asama-Sansō Incident of 1972 and reveals the cyclical nature of political violence and the means of its defeat.

Paul Cartledge argues that all historiography can be seen as fictionalised and relishes the fact that novelists breathe new life into ancient worlds.

A key figure in the First Crusade died on July 8th, 1115. 

E.R. Truitt revisits John Cohen’s 1963 article on the history of automata and the quest to recreate humanity.

The carnage at Texel has been largely forgotten.

Homelessness was an acute problem in the 19th-century city.

Armen T. Marsoobian explores the complex history of one of the 20th-century’s worst and most neglected crimes against humanity.

A notorious mass murderer was sentenced to death on July 1st 1915.