History Today

Sylvia Ellis has been listening in to LBJ’s taped telephone calls from the Oval Office and finds they have much to tell the historian about the man behind the escalation of the Vietnam war.

The bombing of the King David Hotel – the British headquarters in Mandatory Palestine – killed 91. What role did terrorism play in the birth of the state of Israel?

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.