History Today

Nick Poyntz looks at the ways in which mobile phone 'apps' can bring historical insight to our everyday environment.

The enormous growth in user-generated content made possible by such developments as the wiki, presents exciting opportunities as well as potential perils for historians, as Nick Poyntz explains.

Nick Poyntz looks at the ways in which the ubiquitous search engine is changing the nature of historical research.

This month Nick Poyntz looks at how to access the wealth of digitised source material now available to historians.

This month Nick Poyntz examines the rapid rise of blogging among both professional historians and amateur enthusiasts.

The great Russian author Anton Chekov drew inspiration from the countryside and explored the practical and spiritual impact of trees and the consequences of deforestation.

America has struggled to reform public healthcare for over 100 years and now has a byzantine, costly system controlled by powerful, money-hungry interest groups. Can President Obama deliver reform?

The 2009 Nobel Prize winner for literature is well placed to describe the trials of Eastern European minorities through the maelstrom of the 20th century, writes Markus Bauer.

The Bamburgh sword, a unique pattern-welded weapon found in Northumbria, has helped shed new light on a critical period of Anglo-Saxon. 

The League of Nations has been much derided, but it laid the foundations for an international court and established bodies that the United Nations maintains today.