History Today

The first of the two Longman/History Today prize-winning essays on the topic ‘Is distance lending enchantment to the view historians have of the British Empire and its legacies’.

Was Richard Arkwright really the mechanical genius of the Industrial Revolution? Karen Fisk questions his record as Britain’s first cotton tycoon.

Richard Cavendish marks the anniversary of a very suspicious death, on March 10th, 1948

The illustrator and author died on March 16th, 1898.

Courtier, soldier, explorer, colonist, scholar, family man, libertine: in his life Elizabeth's favourite played many parts, and posterity has accentuated each according to the needs of the time, as Robert Lawson-Peebles explains.

Kit Wedd gives an account of the winners from History Today's 1997 history writing awards.

The legendary figure of the Wild West was born on 19 March 1848.

Claire Tomalin previews a National Portrait Gallery exhibition which focuses on mother and daughter Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.

Nicholas Doumanis discovers surprisingly favourable memories of Italian occupation from the Dodecanese Greeks who experienced it between the years 1912-43.

Ed Young investigates the ancient process of Egyptian mummification.