History Today

Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present by Johanna Drucker explores the birth of the alphabet before the Greeks.

‘It is not the rich and seemingly powerful that make history, but the majority of humans.’

Patterns in dust reveal the right verses to live by. 

Is King Lear the Shakespearean tragedy for a world of capitalism and catastrophe? 

Is there a trend of ‘reverse Darwinism’ in Russian history?

As America built a vision of its past Oliver Cromwell became both angel and demon.

The means, tactics and strategies employed by Vietnamese communist authorities against the occupying French.

Bayard Rustin, African American civil rights leader, was also a pacifist, a socialist and a gay rights activist.

Protecting merchant ships during the Napoleonic Wars, the British convoy system was instrumental in securing its narrow victory. 

The lessons contained in Ælfric of Eynsham’s Colloquy are impervious to time.