History Today

The Spectator was first published on March 1st, 1711. 

The Mamelukes were massacred in Cairo on March 1st, 1811.

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of this great emperor's accession, on March 7th, AD 161.

On a research trip to Moscow in the late 1990s, Deborah Kaple was given a package of papers by a former Gulag official who believed its contents would be of great interest to a western audience.

The death-obsessed and inward-looking Aztec civilisation sowed the seeds of its own destruction, argues Tim Stanley.

Medieval historian Nicholas Orme believes that the teaching of history in Britain’s universities is better now than it has ever been.

Held during a period of intense great power rivalry, the Hague Conference sought to prevent conflict but ended up rewriting the laws of war instead.

Hugh Thomas tells Paul Lay about his unparalleled research into the lives of the extraordinary generation of men who conquered the New World for Golden Age Spain.

A groundbreaking project that points the way to the future of the discipline was recognised at our annual celebration of excellence in history.

Natasha McEnroe on the reopening of a fascinating but little-known collection.