History Today

A visceral history of of American soldiers in Belgium, France and Italy, 1943-45.

The mild anarchy of piles of second-hand books reminds us of the simple, contingent encounters we have all missed during lockdown. 

Realising the world was changing around them, the Qing government began sending students abroad.

‘History doesn’t teach any lessons – only historians do.’

A Greek hero sees off the challenge of temptation with the help of his ship’s crew. 

Whatever Henry II may have wished, we will never be rid of Thomas Becket.

A compendious history of political murder.

Those who control the media control the state. Lenin knew this, but by 1991 his Soviet successors had forgotten, to their ultimate cost.

The Norse voyages to Greenland and Canada as part of a bigger story.