History Today

Sebastian Walsh looks at a forgotten friend and adviser to Queen Elizabeth from the early years of her reign.

Historian of suburbia Mark Clapson peers over the fences of Wisteria Lane to discover a fifty-year-old myth still at work.

Ralph Griffiths commemorates the recently deceased historian of medieval Wales and Britishness.

Richard Grayson reveals the human side to a wartime Cabinet minister’s personal tragedy.

Ian Kershaw sees 1945 as a real watershed in Europe’s history of the last century.

Seán Lang tells of the Dufferin Fund, an aristocratic initiative supported by Queen Victoria to improve medical conditions, particularly in childbirth, for Indian women in the late 19th century.

September 19th, 1905

Roland Quinault finds alarming parallels for the recent London bomb attacks in the 1880s.

Rachel Sieder considers the role of ‘memory politics’ in Guatemala’s uncertain path to democracy as government and society attempt to come to terms with the brutality of the counter-insurgency war.

Andrew Fisher asks who William Wallace really was, and why he has become an icon of Scottish resistance to the English.