History Today

Hugh Williams describes how he and his colleagues set about compiling a list of fifty significant ‘things’ that have helped to shape Britain and the British.

What was the nature of the clandestine correspondence between the future Catherine the Great and the British ambassador to St Petersburg?

Anthea Gerrie describes a museum that is also in itself a historical record of a city’s development.

Richard Cavendish charts the events leading up to King Zog I's coronation on September 1st, 1928.

Nelson was born on 29 September 1758.

The agreement permitting Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland was signed on 29 September 1938.

Alex Goodall looks back at the career of one of the shadiest agents ever hired by the FBI in its history.

When The People’s War was published in 1969 on the thirtieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, it set a gold standard for Home Front studies that has never been equalled. It has remained in print ever since, read for nearly forty years by those who remembered and those who never knew.

Mark Bryant looks at the cartoons that adorned one of the Nazis’ most reviled newspapers.

Rebecca Abrams discovers the history of a forgotten Aberdonian doctor who could – if anyone had listened to his ideas  – have saved the lives of countless women in childbirth over the following centuries.