History Today

The man who killed Abraham Lincoln was shot dead on 26 April, 1865.

Arriving in Syria, three London schoolgirls will find themselves in a ‘medieval’ world where the teenager is an unknown concept.

Paul Fouracre looks at the states that formed after the Fall of Rome and the early historians who questioned whether the barbarians were oppressors or liberators.

Roger Hudson explains why the great cricketer W.G. Grace embraced Indian headwear for a day.

Steven Runciman’s profile of Richard the Lionheart, written at a time of impending crisis in Anglo-Cypriot relations, offers a nuanced and sensitive portrait, writes Minoo Dinshaw.

Following the media rush to commemorate the First World War, Stephen Badsey is disappointed that television has so far failed to embrace the latest historical research on the conflict.

Bishop William Stubbs was the last of the amateur historians and arguably the discipline’s first professional.

The life and personality of Francis I.

The First World War transformed women-only Somerville College. It became a hospital for convalescing soldiers, housed poets and writers and changed forever the fortunes of female students, writes Frank Prochaska. 

The West’s confused approach to Germany after Hitler’s death damaged its relationship with the Soviet Union.