History Today

Helen Rappaport on Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and the Post-Crimean War reputation of the woman recently voted ‘greatest black Briton’: Mary Seacole.

David Anderson looks at the contentious issues raised as Kenya comes to terms with the colonial past.

The meetings of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire were held on 2 February 1555.

How the South-East Asian peninsula had been shaped before French colonial rule.

Boria Sax finds modern myth-making at work in the apparently timeless legend of the ravens in the Tower.

Bendor Grosvenor reveals for the first time a letter by Queen Victoria, which sheds light on the true nature of her relationship and feelings for her man-servant John Brown.

Jonathan Conlin reads 1066 And All That, a book that served as a point of departure to so many people, seventy-five years after its first publication.

Derek Wilson explores the myths and truths about the famous family, whose fortunes were so closely connected to the Tudor dynasty.

Martin Evans and Emmanuel Godin ask how close was France to becoming a Communist country in the years after the Second World War.

This month marks the 100th anniversary of St Petersburg’s Bloody Sunday. The Manchester Guardian was there, as Charlotte Alston describes.