History Today

Roger Hudson explains a moment of panic on the streets of the newly liberated French capital.

The relationship between an ‘unquiet past’ and the concerns of the present has been a key feature of recent engagements with the Spanish Civil War.

Carol Dyhouse questions some of the assertions made by John Gardiner in his 1999 article about the Victorians.

The founder of the Baha'i religious movement proclaimed his vision on April 21st, 1863.

The Spanish explorer landed in the New World on April 3rd, 1513.

The great political philosopher was born on April 5th, 1588.

Exhuming historical characters makes for dramatic headlines and can seem a great way to get easy answers, but we should think twice before disturbing the remains of dead monarchs, says Justin Pollard.

John Gillingham challenges an idea, recently presented in History Today, that the Anglo-Saxon King Egbert was responsible for the naming of England.

The Oxford Dodo has defined our idea of the creature. When alive, the bird was displayed in London as part of a kind of urban freak show. In death it featured in Alice in Wonderland. Charles Norton reveals what became of the last dodo.

In 1943 a train was stopped by resisters as it travelled from Flanders to Auschwitz. Althea Williams tells the story of a survivor.