Following its conquest by the English in 1284, medieval Wales needed a new origin story that established its place in Britain ...

Demosthenes: Democracy’s Defender by James Romm looks for hope amid the sound and fury surrounding the great orator of ...

At the end of the Cold War, Russia and the West seemed set on a path towards cooperation. Why did it veer into renewed ...

The Thirty Years War devastated continental Europe, killing millions and creating as many refugees. How did they experience ...

Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Her latest book is The Gun, the Ship and ...

On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser explores the long history of anti-intellectualism ...

In 1787 the Quakers of Portsmouth made their anti-slavery campaign official by forming The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, joining forces with prominent abolitionists such as ...

Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost. Preservation only began when film came to be seen as art.

On 8 November 1923, Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, attempted to take control of the Bavarian state government. It was his movement’s first step towards seizing ...

It was a wretched end to a vivid life. Emma Lyon was born in 1765 in the Wirral area south of Birkenhead. Her father, a blacksmith, died when she was a baby and she was brought up by her mother at ...

When Norman Davies published Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe in 2011 he remembered Alt Clud and Aragon, but forgot the Crimean Khanate. Perhaps he considered the Crimean ...

History Today Back Issues Volume 76 Issue 2 February 2026 ...