History Today

The beginnings of fashion are often traced to the courts and cities of medieval southern Europe. Should we be looking further north?

The mistress of Lord Nelson died on January 15th, 1815. 

The father of Unitarianism in England was baptised on January 14th, 1615.

Tudor Edwards describes how the austere order of Trappists in Normandy was driven by the French Revolution to seek refuge in Switzerland, Austria and Russia.

Mail reform came to Britain on January 10th, 1840.

While we return again and again to the proto-historians of the classical world, we neglect those pioneering figures closer to us in space and time. Why is this, wonders Mathew Lyons?

Besides his work as a military engineer, Vauban published books on a variety of subjects, from religious tolerance to pig-breeding and royal taxation. By F.J. Hebbert and G.A. Rothrock.

Born of a Calvinist family in the principality of Sedan, Turenne became the military hero of the Bourbon forces in civil and foreign wars. By Aram Bakshian.

Cyril Hamshere describes how the British community in Argentina came to be, at one point, the largest outside the Empire.

Among Victorian writers King George IV acquired an unenviable reputation; John Raymond re-interprets his personality.