History Today

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.

Marilyn Monroe married Arthur Miller on June 29th, 1956. The marriage lasted five years.

Richard Cavendish describes how British prisoners were held captive by the army of the Nawab of Bengal, for one night, in the 'black hole' of Fort William in Calcutta.

Cartoon historian Mark Bryant explores the visual satire emanating from both sides of the conflict between Russia and Japan in the first decade of the 20th century.

Jane Bowden-Dan explores medical links between the Caribbean and London that throw important light on the position of blacks in eighteenth-century British society.