History Today

Graham A. MacDonald reappraises the ideas and impact of the 20th-century political thinker, Michael Oakeshott.

Michelle Liebst looks at how the career of the great explorer of Africa reflects the wider failings of Victorian imperialism.

President Obama has more in common with Dwight D. Eisenhower than any other of his predecessors, says Michael Burleigh.

During his 1924 incarceration Adolf Hitler attempted to appropriate the ideas of some of Germany’s greatest thinkers and philosophers.

Derek Wilson looks at Henry Tudor’s long period of exile and asks what influence it had on his exercise of power following his seizure of the English throne in 1485.

Of the many immigrants from the United Kingdom who took up arms in the war, only a small number were English. 

A topical take on the last Plantagent ruler in this cartoon by Rob Murray.

Few incidents in the British rule of India have given rise to more acute controversy than Dyer's drastic action at Amritsar on April 13th, 1919.

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.