History Today

The US Senator's anti-Communist 'Crusade' began on February 9th, 1950.

The MP for Blackpool South and ex-editor of History Today describes how his early interest in history bewildered his family but proved ineradicable.

Daniel Snowman talks to a man who has devoted his long and distinguished career to unravelling the threads of American freedom.

New documents have come to light which help to explain why John Harrison refused to compete for the Longitude prize even though his sea-clock appeared to work well.

Greening urban landscapes is nothing new, says Joyce Ellis, the Georgians were Greens too.

Jabulani Maphalala recalls the calamatious effects of a white man’s war on the Zulu people caught between them.

Susan Cohen and Clive Fleay rediscover the forgotten lives and work of three women who sought to alleviate the plight of Britain’s Edwardian underclass.

David Braund re-examines what we know about Britain at the time of the Roman invasions.

In May 1941 Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy, landed in Scotland. But historians differ over the true nature of his mission.

Michael Sturma finds parallels in contemporary accounts of abductions by space aliens with European narratives of captivity by Indians and Aboriginals in early America and Australia.