History Today

The rhetorical ruins of Tenochtitlan, Rome and Baghdad.

Have dominant narratives of the American Civil War been detrimental to its emancipatory promise?

Saint or sinner? Recent demonstrations in the American city of St. Louis are just the latest battle for the legacy of a medieval French king. 

If Covid-19 has taught us anything it is that the West – and that includes its historians – must expand its horizons. 

Ethiopia’s current crisis is rooted in a long history of regional and ethnic defiance towards the political centre. 

The bodies of Jan Bockelson, and two other leaders of the Anabaptist sect, were hung outside the church of St Lambert on 22 January 1536.

In the wake of the failure of the Spanish Armada, England sought retaliation by launching an invasion of its own. But how to finance such a venture?

The ruined temples of Cambodia’s medieval empire became symbols of a people who had forgotten their history. In reality, they demonstrate an inherent continuity.