History Today

The great opera premiered in Rome on January 14th, 1900.

Stephen Gundle settles in the stalls to re-view the epochal Fellini film that defined the hedonistic spirit of post-war Italy.

On January 31st, 1950, Truman announced that he had directed the Atomic Agency Commission 'to continue with its work on all forms of atomic energy weapons, including the so-called hydrogen or super-bomb'.

The English social reformer was born on January 24th, 1800.

Durham primary teacher David Field describes how he is trying to set his children on a path that may make them the historians of the twenty-first century.

The Royal Observatory launches a new all-encompassing exhibition on the history of time.

Andrew Pettegree re-reads Geoffrey Elton’s classic text and considers how the subject has developed in nearly four decades since it was written.

C.R.J. Currie celebrates the Victoria County History - a monument to the past that is looking forward confidently to the future.

Paul Greenhalgh provides some background to the V&A's 'Art Nouveau' exhibition.

Newfoundland celebrates fifty years as Canada's tenth province and remembers the Vikings arriving a thousand years earlier.