History Today

Richard Cavendish remembers how France took Calais, the last continental possession of England, on January 7th, 1558.

Germany's new Chancellor took power on 30 January 1933.

The ill-suited couple were wed on January 25th, 1308.

Mahatma Gandhi was shot on 30 January 1948 by the Hindu fanatic Nathuram Godse. His death reverberated across the globe.

Helen Rappaport visits the town on the Russian-Siberian border that has become a focus for Romanov pilgrimage.

Suzanne Bardgett, director of the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, reports on this ambitious new facility which opened in October.

York Membery remembers John By, the brilliant British military engineer responsible for building the 175-year-old Rideau Canal.

A.S.H. Smyth witnesses the first Meskel Festival of Ethiopia’s Third Millennium, in the ancient capital of Gonder.

 Roger Moorhouse reviews a title on the Holocaust.

Simon Goldhill explains how he came to be hooked on Greek tragedy at an early age – and has stayed hooked.