History Today

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.

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.