The Civil Wars
In recent decades few fields of historical inquiry have produced as rich a body of work as the British Civil Wars. Sarah Mortimer offers a guide to the latest scholarship.
In recent decades few fields of historical inquiry have produced as rich a body of work as the British Civil Wars. Sarah Mortimer offers a guide to the latest scholarship.
Today, choosing a new Archbishop of Canterbury is a relatively straightforward process. It was not always so, as Katherine Harvey explains.
William Huskisson was the first person to die in a railway accident.
The need to manage the water supply has always been a driver of human history, argues Steven Mithen.
Bilbo Baggins first strode onto the world stage on September 21st, 1937.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild died on September 19th 1812.
The full text of Jonathan Steinberg's interview with History Today editor Paul Lay.
In our final round up of histories of the nations that make up the British Isles – or, if you prefer, the Atlantic Archipelago – Maria Luddy examines an event which shaped 20th-century Ireland, the 1916 Dublin Easter Rising.
In recent years the reputation of Mary Seacole as a pioneering nurse of the Crimean War has been elevated far beyond the bounds of her own ambition. Meanwhile that of Florence Nightingale has taken an undeserved knocking, as Lynn McDonald explains.