History Today

The Hampton Court Conference opened on January 14th, 1604. The most important product of the conference was the King James Bible.

Kerry Ellis recalls the remarkable career of the Englishwoman who saw it as her destiny to establish a pro-British monarchy in Iraq.

Anubha Charan describes the arguments surrounding one of the world’s most politically explosive excavations.

In the middle of the 19th century, Korea was isolated from the rest of the world and unknown. Many attempts were made to open it.

France ceded Naples to Spain on January 31st, 1504.

The first-ever parliament of the Sudan was opened by the British governor-general, Sir Robert Howe, on January 1st, 1954.

Federico Guillermo Lorenz shows that those who control the present are sometimes able to control interpretations of the past.

Peter Ling argues that Thomas Jefferson’s ideas have had dramatic continent-wide effects on the landscape and ecology of the United States.

David Lowenthal explores natural history enthusiasms among Victorian Britons and Americans, and finds an explanation for their differing approaches to conservation.

Charlotte Crow glimpses the British Museum’s new exhibition of its own original collections in the great King’s Library.