History Today

John Strachan looks at women and advertising in late Georgian England.

Andrew Bridgeford argues that we have failed to appreciate the ingenuity and complexity of the story depicted by the Bayeux Tapestry.

The Duke of Burgundy, named 'bold' for his bravery at the age of 14 in the Battle of Poitiers, died on April 27th, 1404.

Ann Matear examines the continuing pursuit of justice after Pinochet’s dictatorship.

Michael Robertson tells how a group of lower-middle-class men in late-Victorian England found the American poet an inspiration in their desire to reconcile spirituality, science and socialism.

Oxford beat Cambridge in the hundreth meeting on April 3rd, 1954.

Charles Freeman offers a new theory to explain the positioning in Venice of the famous horses looted from Constantinople eight hundred years ago this month.

After spending almost half her life in exile, the former Queen of Spain died on 9th April, 1904.

Andrew Cook examines the latest evidence from MI5 on the miners’ strike and the fall of the Heath government, March 1974.

Denis Judd takes stock of current arguments as to the effect of British rule in India and other countries of the Empire.