History Today

Alex Barker discusses St Augustine's Abbey Museum.

Why did Goering and Goebbels fall out over a performance of Richard III? Gerwin Strobl on this and other intriguing reasons why the Bard mattered to the Third Reich.

Richard Cavendish describes the launch of the Second Crusade on May 19th, 1147.

In the middle of the Revolutionary Wars, British sailors mounted a large-scale mutiny on 15 April 1797.

Richard Cavendish unravels Crimean and other military links at Deene Park in Northamptonshire.

Richard Cavendish takes an indepth look into the history of Eastnor Castle.

Gordon Marsden looks at how a Passion portrayal by one of the Middle Ages' most enigmatic painters, unlocks the door to the intense world of late medieval religious devotion.

We publish below the winning entry of the 1997 Longman/History Today Essay Prize, answering the question: 'Is 1990s history still too much his-tory and not enough her-story? How far should historians take into account political correctness and past injustices to groups in presenting their versions of the past?'

The Holy Roman Empire won a decisive battle on 24 April 1547.

Onward Christian Socialists? Mark Bevir takes a timely look at a little-known phenomenon that was part of turn-of-the-century radicalism in Britain.