History Today

A part-memoir, part-historical exploration of British Second World War masculinity and sexuality.

A now commonplace device, Joseph Priestley’s timeline revolutionised how we view history. 

Thriving in troubled times, the allure of a good conspiracy theory has proved irresistible whenever and wherever authorities are not trusted. What’s the damage? 

The correspondents who reported on a period when Russia changed European, and world, history.

The coronation of Charles III was dense with meaning. It’s complicated; and easy to misunderstand. 

An account of the Roman Empire at its height amounts to a marvellous vademecum.

A new account of some of the most exciting, terrible and important years in English history.

How should we view the worrying rise of protesters using symbols of the Holocaust to legitimise their cause? 

At 9pm on 26 July 1609, Thomas Harriot pointed his telescope at a five-day-old crescent moon. It made him the first person to train such an instrument on the skies and map the moon. 

Madagascar was among the prizes of Europe’s ruthless African land grab. When a US diplomat made plans for his own colonial enterprise, he found that the French had other ideas.