History Today

Hunting in the archives for the ‘real’ Robin Hood.

I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 by Che Guevara collects the deft epistolary prose of the self-styled prophet.

The aim of Charles I’s foreign policy was to restore his nephew’s lands in the Rhineland. France, he thought, was the key to success. 

Britain has been a high inequality, high poverty nation for most of the last 200 years. 

Exploring the important, but elusive, diplomatic role played by people of African descent in early modern Europe.

‘No genre reveals as much about the human condition as military history.’

If the study of history has a future, it must look beyond the near horizon, in space and time. 

The remarkable adolescence of the Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen.

Another year is history. Were you paying attention?