History Today

Nat Turner, leader of one of the most significant rebellions in the antebellum South, was born on 2 October 1800.

Though horse racing was a symbol of British colonialism, it became a surprisingly inclusive pastime in China’s major International Settlement. 

Cuba’s built heritage owes a personal debt.

In the early years of Nazi rule, the vagueness of much Nazi ideology enabled many Germans to see in Nazism what they wanted to see.

The West Indies’ past is a key to our present.

‘The past has not gone.’

In its earliest days, the East India Company was seen not as a threat to Asia’s elites, but as a means of strengthening their powers.

A Dutch conspiracy trial in the Indonesian archipelago gave birth to a sadly enduring English word.