History Today

Roy Porter discusses the life of the 18th-century essayist and critic.

The great majority of women's lives were changed by the American Revolution: they were increasingly drawn into the political debate – as household producers and consumers, and as wives and mothers.

John Stuart Mill saw the enfranchisement of women as 'the most important of all political movements' on the road to the equality of the sexes.

David Englander describes the 1834 events and their relevance for the future of labour.

Paul Dukes analyses a number of books on the conflict.

In Europe Philhellenism – the romantic desire arising from admiration of ancient Greece to further understanding of all things Greek – had its origins in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century.

Keith M. Brown on the Scottish nobility in the early modern period.

A hundred years later, Michael Bentley looks back upon the arrival and impact of the Cambridge Modern History.

David Nicholls demonstrates that history, rather than being ‘irrelevant’, is a passport to success in the world of work.