History Today

The Classical world in Venetian colours.

Which Pope refused Henry VIII’s annulment? When was income tax first levied in Britain?

Four historians consider what the past might tell us about everyday responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ovid’s tale inspired one of the world’s greatest works of art.

When was the Year of the Four Popes? Who were the Sacred Band of Thebes?

What will future generations judge us most harshly for? Abandoning the rule that truth matters in public life.

A message from the team at History Today.

Can we learn from history about how diseases spread, and how we respond to them?

‘History seems to have little influence on many of our rulers.’ 

The Norse god who found a new immortality in the stage works of Richard Wagner.