History Today

Often portrayed as a paragon of Christian virtue, the real King Arthur was an embarrassment to the Church, writes Simon Andrew Stirling.

Clare Mulley takes issue with an article on Second World War resistance movements, first published in 1984.

Roger Hudson on the circumstances behind an eviction in County Clare, Ireland, photographed in July 1888.

God's general was buried on August 29th, 1912.

The 'lost' city re-emerged on 22 August 1812.

Christian apocalyptic literature and ecological predictions both anticipate the end of the world. Are they born of the same tradition, asks Jean-François Mouhot?

David Waller on the 150th anniversary of a ship that symbolised Liverpool’s ties to the Confederate states during the American Civil War.

Christopher Winn recalls the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and other mysterious drownings.

The romantic ‘braveheart’ image of Scotland’s past lives on. But, as Christopher A. Whatley shows, a more nuanced ‘portrait of the nation’ is emerging, one that explores the political and religious complexities of Jacobitism and its enduring myth-making power.

Patricia Cleveland-Peck tells the story of Fanny Calderón de la Barca and her life as an author, ambassador’s wife and governess to the Spanish royal family.