History Today

Melissa Lane looks at the reputation of the great philosopher. both at the time of is death and in subsequent debates about democracy.

The Holy Roman Emperor died on January 23rd, 1002.

Louis Braille died on January 6th, 1852, aged 43.

The Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Alliance, the first between a European country and an Asiatic power against a Western rival, was signed on 30 January 1902.

An Appreciation by Christopher Hill

Was the call for the ‘unconditional surrender’ of Germany, Italy, and Japan the most ruinous Allied policy of the Second World War?

Curator Alex Werner marks the 25th anniversary of the Museum of London

Glen Jeansonne and David Luhrrsen on Gerald L.K. Smith, orator of the far right

Simon Hall and John Haywood on the publication of a new atlas which fills an unexpected gap in the market