History Today

Roger Owen considers bell’s impact on the much maligned consul-general of Egypt.

John Guy, author of a new biography of Mary, Queen of Scots, explains how working in the archives made him fascinated with sixteenth-century history.

Daniel Snowman meets the historian of Germany, defender of history and expert witness in the Irving trial.

Lawrence Paterson tells the story behind a new book of rare photographs published this month detailing life aboard a German Second World War submarine.

Nicky McHugh describes recent developments in Hartford, Connecticut, at the home of Mark Twain for those seeking a close encounter with America’s literary past.

Frank Shapiro investigates the options open to Jews who wanted to leave Nazi Germany prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, and considers why one possible route to safety was abandoned.

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.