History Today

Patricia Cleveland-Peck looks at fresh projects and older initiatives to record the experiences and opinions of ‘ordinary people’.

Fighting broke out in the Philippines on the night of February 4th, 1899, after an American patrol shot a Filipino guerrilla.

Ted Cowan visits the new Museum of Scotland and considers its implications for the nation’s view of itself.

Richard Cavendish explains the life and death of Henry IV's father, on February 3rd, 1399

Richard Cavendish recreates the scene of the famous Victorian Tory leader's accession, on February 22nd 1849.

Michael Bush explores the development of sex guides in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and their effect on British society.

Antonia Fraser recalls the girlhood awakening of a ‘sense of place’ that has continued to influence her methods as a historian.

J.E. Spence considers the interface between ideological and geopolitical factors in the struggle for supremacy in Southern Africa.

Patrick Morley tells how a small wartime radio network for us troops in Britain in 1943 provoked a fierce reaction from certain quarters at the BBC

When Umbria suffered an extended earthquake sixteen months ago, international attention was particularly focused on Assisi where unique ceiling paintings by Giotto, Cimabue, Martini and others were destroyed at the famous double church of St Francis.