History Today

Elizabeth of York was Queen consort of England as spouse of King Henry VII from 1486 until her death on February 11th, 1503.

Andrew Mendelsohn outlines the attractions of a fast-growing an popular field of study.

Matthew Stewart discusses Peter Weir's 1981 cinematic tour de force, and what it tells us about the ANZAC myth.

Richard Carwardine describes the new library dedicated to Abraham Lincoln.

The taking of Kano by the West African Frontier Force, on February 3rd 1903, signalled the end of the Muslim fundamentalist Fulani empire in northern Nigeria.

The French tragedy at sea, immortalised in Géricault’s masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa, was put to use in the service of British patriotism.

How many miraculous recoveries from castration and blinding were there in thirteenth-century England? Paul Hyams investigates the conjunction of the cure with the growth of a saint’s cult.

Jeremy Black, one of the most prolific historians of our time, explains the energy behind his perpetual-motion pen.

Borrowing the money to hire 3,000 mercenaries, Henry crossed the Channel in a howling gale on 6 January 1153.

The House of Trade was set up in Seville on January 20th, 1503, granting the city the exclusive right to trade with the New World.