History Today

On the 60th anniversary of the sinking of HMS Hood, Malcolm Gaskill looks at the prosecution of medium Helen Duncan for witchcraft in 1944.

Siegfried Beer looks at the links between The Third Man and British intelligence.

Richard Cavendish describes the events leading up to the nationalisation of Iranian oil fields on May 2nd, 1951.

Anthony Bryer considers the life and work of this great historian, who died in November 2000.

The Portuguese ruler began to curb the most powerful arch-conservative force in the country on May 3rd, 1751

Philip Stott unravels the emergence of myths about the tropical rain forests.

Douglas Johnson, historian of France and HT academic board member, explains how a youthful attraction to libraries opened doors for him.

 Lucy Marten-Holden, winner of the first Royal Historical Society / History Today award for the undergraduate dissertation of the year, explores the thinking behind the siting of the Norman castles of Suffolk.

Daniel Snowman introduces our new anthology, published later this month by Sutton Publishers.

Peter Burke describes how the study of visual sources has extended the range of historical enquiry.