Volume 76 Issue 1 January 2026

The men and medics of the 17th century were consumed with anxiety over women’s pregnancy cravings.

‘Who is the most underrated person in history? I would like to know more about William O. Golding, the Black sailor who produced images of all the great world ports in the 1930s.’

Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest land animals ever to have lived – but how did they live?

Indonesian national heroes are state approved. Is Suharto, an old president with a history of violence, worthy of the title?

1960s San Francisco is remembered as the capital of gay liberation, but it also saw the birth of conversion therapy.

History Today was first published 75 years ago this month to make sense of a world undergoing ‘bewilderingly swift’ change.

On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser explores the long history of anti-intellectualism from the death of Socrates to the culture wars.

History Today was first published on 12 January 1951. Our readers and contributors share their memories of the magazine 75 years on.

The 18th-century Dutch Republic was a hotbed of secretive Jacobite networks producing seditious pamphlets.