History Today

Walter Minchinton discusses the rise of buildings used for ammunition manufacture.

The murder of young Edmund de Pashley uncovered a family feud that illuminates the realities of late-medieval crime.

Frouke Wieringa considers the life of a great prince in the sixteenth century and the fluctuations in his fortunes during the Dutch Revolt

In Paris in the 1730s, a group of printing apprentices tortured and ritually killed all the cats they could find. What does this macabre story tell us about the culture and society of eighteenth-century France?

The European images of Argentina are complex, and mirror profound debates about nationalism and universalism, popular and elite culture.

David Harvey explores the most influential titles on women in Ancient Greece.

Juliet Gardiner introduces a series of articles commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of the count of Nassau who led the rebellion of the Netherlands.

T.P. Wiseman applauds those historians who restlessly question orthodoxies and received facts.

'America has not come to terms with its own history ... and regards Latin American nationalism as a conspiracy against its inevitable and popular domination of the western hemisphere.