History Today

‘They dwell in paradise and it pays’ was the view expressed of the immigrant fruit farmers who settled in British Columbia for a long Edwardian summer.

Gertrude Himmelfarb considers why and when poverty ceased to be a ‘natural’ condition and become a ‘social’ problem in the Early Industrial Age.

Slavery would seem to be the epitome of domination by an all-powerful master over a passive, subservient dependent. But is this the whole picture?

Ben Shephard looks at the career of Peter Lobengula, the African ‘Prince’ who tantalised the British press and public and died in poverty in Salford in 1913, highlighting Victorian attitudes towards race, colour and sex.

David Kiyaga-Mulindwa looks in to Southern Africa's early history.

Julia Phillips charts the history of women in British society.

John Burrows presents this month’s Today's History feature to coincide with the birth of N.F.S. Grundtvig, the Danish political reformer and father of further education.

Geoffrey Parker looks at the Decline of Spain.

Paul Cartledge argues ancient history should be brought in from the cold.

Anthony McFarlane looks back to a time when freedom and independence were a common aspiration among American peoples.