History Today

The 'Divine Sarah' had her right leg amputated on February 22nd, 1915.  

The novelist and peer died on February 11th, 1940. 

The young queen married Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on 10 February 1840.

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.