History Today

Martin Evans offers a frank reassessment of his article on 30 years of Algerian independence, published in History Today in 1992.

The civil war between Roman Catholics and Huguenots reached a brief peace on March 19th, 1563.

The notorious prison was closed for good on 21 March 1963.

Canberra was born on March 12th, 1913.

George Charles Henry Victor Paget, the 7th Marquis of Anglesey, shares the stories behind the trip that his ancestor, the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, paid to the Court of Russia with his sons during the summer of 1839.

George Pendle finds that the authoress of Little Arthur's History of England was also an inquisitive and adventurous traveller.

Than the Younger Pitt, there is no lonelier, yet more commanding, figure among British Prime Ministers. By R.J. White.

S.M. Toyne investigates how, from earliest times, the migration of the herring has exercised an important influence on the history of the peoples living around the North Sea and the Baltic.

Ann Dewar looks back at the Parliamentary debate over the introduction of Daylight Saving Hours, tabled in 1916 by Sir Henry Norman.

In 1952, the Society of Friends celebrated its tercentenary. One of the Quakers' greatest achievements was the founding of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1681. By Henry J. Cadbury.