History Today

Were you paying attention in 2019?

What tradition did Martin Luther begin? In what year was ‘Good King Wenceslas’ assassinated?

Death, fealty, homage and power in 1199.

A selection of our favourite articles from the past year.

When we ask historians which genre of history they like least, the most common answer is ‘economic’. Is the field unjustly maligned?

Three wise men, guided by a star, search for the new-born Christ.

Covering Hong Kong, the anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, porcine inebriation and the Battle of Algiers, nine historians select their favourite books of the past year.

Who was the ‘Father of History’? Do you know which was the first city to be bombed from the air?

How did the East India Company become ‘an empire within an empire’?

What’s the most important lesson history has taught me? To try to see things from multiple angles.