History Today

The son of a fisherman's revolt against Spanish taxes on fruit in Naples, on 7 July 1647, was part of a wider challenge to Spanish overlordship throughout the Habsburg domains.

Tony Aldous investigates the story behind Grey Street in Newcastle upon Tyne

Denise Silvester-Carr investigates the restoration of Hardwick Hall, home of Bess of Hardwick.

Paul Goalen on questions of national identity in the classroom.

On 5 June 1647, the New Model Army made a formal resolution not to disband until all the Army's grievances had been redressed.

At Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in June 1897, pride in the British Empire seemed at its zenith, but in a fresh look at the commemorative poems of Rudyard Kipling, Denis Judd finds the poet pointing to cracks in the imperial façade.

In an intriguing story of pistols at dawn involving one of Hitler's golden Teutons, William Combs explores the tensions between old and new codes of honour in Nazi Germany.

Sarah Foster offers a fascinating account of how Irish identity, with its sectarian implications, asserted itself in the manufacture and purchase of luxury goods.

John Cabot set sail from Bristol, England, looking for a route to the west on May 20th 1497.