History Today

Some 110,000 Jews left Iraq in 1950 and 1951 – a Jewish community that could trace its origins back to the Babylonians.

When a Victorian celebrity sportsman was found to be taking performance-enhancing drugs it caused a sensation, not a scandal.

Hollywood’s Cold War dissidents in Ireland.

The suggestion that Russia has become an Orwellian tyranny is an inadequate explanation as to why the country finds itself in its present situation.

What historical topic have I changed my mind on? I thought the sacrifice of young women in the Bronze Age was a myth. It wasn’t.

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.