History Today

Alexios Alecou explains how Britain sought to police the strategically important island in the eastern Mediterranean.

During his brief lifetime, James V was a popular ruler who aimed to maintain Scotland’s independence from his English uncle, Henry VIII. Did it cost him his life?

Stockings were an instant hit when they were first sold on October 27th 1939.

The artist died on October 26th, 1764.

Hanna Czarnocka, an octogenarian now living in London, recalls her part in one of the most courageous resistance actions of the Second World War.

The opening battle of the First World War was won by the Bank of England before the British had so much as fired a shot.

Scots need not look far to find a successful example of ‘devo-max’.

In embracing tattoos, the people of Britain are returning to their ancient roots, argues Paul Lay.

Roger Hudson on a photograph taken in the Krupp works, Essen in 1861, signalling the arrival of a new industrial force in Europe.