History Today

Electric cars seem to offer a solution to the problem of the internal combustion engine. But technological advances have other consequences. 

Solitude was treated with suspicion in the Middle Ages. For most people it has only been a possibility in recent times.

Futurism was launched like a political movement on the front page of Le Figaro on 20 February 1909.

An armed uprising by a handful of religious extremists in Restoration London led to serious consequences for British and, ultimately, world history. 

Puccini’s opera revealed misunderstandings and stereotypes on both sides of the East-West divide.

The resort to law was an integral and regular part of everyday life in medieval Britain – and not just for men. Town court records offer glimpses into the lives of hundreds of ordinary women, through the lawsuits they were involved in. 

From the founding of Kiev in the ninth century through to the present, the Russian Empire has been both a predator and a victim. 

In England, Shrove Tuesday has not just symbolised feasting, fasting and family, but riot and rebellion, too.