History Today

York Membery recalls one of the great statesmen of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

Tristram Hunt looks at the development of conservation and environment movements in the twentieth century, and particularly at the achievements of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, which celebrates its 80th anniversary year.

In welcoming a new publication of the collected numbers of The Wipers Times, Malcolm Brown wonders why we find the idea of humour in the trenches so shocking.

Christopher Kelly introduces the Emperor Constantine.

Patricia Pierce finds out about the two men responsible for publishing Shakespeare’s First Folio.

The Holy Roman Empire had survived over a thousand years when it was finally destroyed by Napoleon and the French in 1806.

The Hungarian city successfully repelled Sultan Mehmet II's army on July 22nd, 1456.

David Bates asks what professional historians can do to satisfy the popular craving for history.

Cartoon historian Mark Bryant explores the art of Carlo Pellegrini,  aka ‘Ape’, whose cartoons of politicians and society figures for Vanity Fair help define the way we imagine Victorian Britain.

The founder of the Society of Jesus died on July 31st, 1556.