History Today

Noel Carrington recalls how he was a Witness to the Past, as the Prince of Wales toured India in 1921.

It is through reading the letters that the soldiers sent home, argues Frank Emery, that “the Victorian rank and file cease to be a mute and anonymous body of men marching past in scarlet or khaki columns.”

J.B. Donnelly looks at the many pictures carried off from Vienna by the victorious Italians, including the magnificent Madonna of the Orange Grove by Cima da Conegliano.

'Bold is the man that dare engage For Piety in such an age' wrote a seventeenth-century poet. Yet, as Antonia Fraser shows here, the aristocratic Puritan, Mary Rich, sought to serve God as much by her tenacious moral example as by her prayers.

Richard Mullen looks back on the wedding of Prince Albert Edward to Princess Alexandra of Denmark.

Michael Crowder looks at a 19th century Haitian jewel.

Whatever may be history’s verdict on the Ayatallah Khomeini, there can be no doubt that he has forced us to question some of our most fundamental assumptions about power in the twentieth century.

History taught Machiavelli that, as a prince must know how to act as a beast, he should be a fox to recognise traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves.

To its respectable neighbours Campbell Road – or Campbell Bunk – was described as the roughest street in north London. The reality was more complex...

Christopher Fyfe looks at how, in 1975 the Cape Verde Island gained their independence from the Portuguese after five hundred years of colonial administration that left them one of the poorest states in the world.