History Today

The belief that you are what you eat emerged in 19th-century France, where the pleasures of the table were sautéed with philosophy and medicine. 

Muslims from Asia who wished to travel to Mecca on the Hajj were exploited by a trade in human cargo that grew with the opening of the Suez Canal.

Breaking into the masculine public sphere of the interwar years.

‘Crazy Jane’ was ubiquitous in the late 18th century, the archetypal figure of those driven mad by disappointed love. 

What’s the meaning of the galloping herds painted on the walls of Lascaux’s cave system?

Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre punctures the myths surrounding Russian spy Ursula Kuczynski

A 17th-century depiction of Joseph and Jesus marks a shift in the status of the nuclear family.

We ask four historians to consider the reputation of Henry II’s Archbishop of Canterbury, who was murdered 850 years ago this month.

Understanding the immediacy and confusion of the Blitz.