History Today

Philip Magnus analyses the political, personal, and literary careers of one of Britain's most influential Victorian premiers.

Charles Seltman analyses the role of the darker deity in Ancient Greece. Second of a two part series. The first part can be read here.

Hugh Trevor-Roper attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding authorship of Charles I's purported last testament.

Between the fourth and the sixteenth centuries two great Mayan civilizations arose and declined in Central America.

Walter Elliott on how an illustrious institution has weathered countless storms.

Rayner Heppenstall highlights the problems inherent in divisions of British and Irish history along racial lines.

Richard Hough explains how the epic construction of the first railway line linking England's largest cities changed the country forever.

Denys Sutton sees the revolutionary work of French artists reflected in the Spring of Nations.

M.G. Brock profiles one of Britain's most able yet ill-fated premiers.

G.H.L. LeMay sets the unique military features of Napoleonic France against those of the eighteenth century at large.