History Today

Ian Ronayne describes how the Channel Island was torn in the First World War between its role as potato producer and its patriotic duty to send men to fight.

More than 900 people perished in the Jonestown mass suicide of November 18th 1978.

To understand why Americans believe their nation to be innocent of imperialism we must go back to the Founding Fathers of the Republic, says Graham MacPhee.

Mark Bryant examines the wartime work of Osbert Lancaster, the centenary of whose birth this year is marked with a new exhibition at the Wallace Collection, London.

Andrew Roberts reflects on the often stormy relationship between Churchill and the Chiefs of Staff during the Second World War.

A.D. Harvey thinks the world of academia is letting down the thousands who make Black History Month such a popular success each year.

Neil Taylor discusses how political change has left its mark on the Latvian capital’s Town Hall Square. 

The last of seven debates between the two Senate candidates took place on October 15th, 1858.

The famed radio broadcast of HG Wells' War of the Worlds took place on October 30th, 1938.

John Paul II was elected on October 16th, 1978. He was the first non-Italian pope to be elected in four centuries.