History Today

Aug 15, 1308

Aug 27 1928

Richard Cavendish remembers what now appears the most brittle of peace pacts.

John Hanning Speke discovered the source of the Nile on August 3rd, 1858.

Jacqui Livesey unmasks the cleric who revealed Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton’s most intimate secrets.

Tobias Grey meets the journalist who was at Charles de Gaulle’s side for twenty-six years.

 In 1909 Beatrice Webb produced a controversial report which proposed abolishing the stigma and penury of the Poor Law and its workhouses. James Gregory argues that this plea for a less judgemental approach to poverty created the foundations of the modern Welfare State.

Bill Wallace looks at the anniversary of the Prague Spring in 1968.

Jeremy Black reviews two books on military history, ancient and modern.

Bridget McGing describes the fascinating but heart breaking task of working with her mother on the family archive, before it was too late.

Mark Bryant examines the history of the Second World War’s favorite cartoon pin-up.