History Today

An overview of the historiography on the decline of Spain in the seventeenth century.

During his brief life, the Polish master of the musical miniature became a living symbol of his troubled nation. Adam Zamoyski looks at the reception given to Chopin by a divided public when he visited Britain in 1848, a year of revolution through Europe.

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of October 9th, 1934.

Eadwig died on October 1st, 959, still in his teens, in circumstances which remain unknown.

Richard Cavendish remembers the death of England's only pope, on September 1st, 1159.

The two politicians fought on September 21st, 1809.

The circus act was first performed on 12 November 1859.

The last of the Manchu emperors received a formal pardon on December 4th, 1959.

The creator of the world's most widely spoken constructed language was born on December 15th, 1859.

The diarist began his work on January 1st 1660.