History Today

The treaties that ended the first part of the second Opium War were signed on 26 and 27 June 1858.

Kennedy was fatally shot on 5 June 1968, in Los Angeles, California. He died the following day.

David Winter visits a land beset for millennia by the fantasies of outsiders.

Mari Takayanagi, archivist at the Parliamentary Archives, explains the significance of the Life Peerages Act,1958.

Roger Moorhouse visits a unique archive of diaries from German history

Corinne Julius visits a new gallery of jewels at the V&A to see what sparkle they add to our understanding of history.

The founder of the Carthusian Order died on 6 October, 1101.

Jo Woolley and David Smurthwaite of the National Army Museum look at Desert Warfare in the Second World War and more widely.

One of William of Orange's earliest convictions was that the Dutch Revolt would never succeed without foreign support.