History Today

We ask 20 questions of leading historians on why their research matters, one book everyone should read and their views on historical drama …

The varied social, economic and institutional conditions that shaped science over more than two centuries.

Defying categorisation since its discovery, was the platypus a mammal, a reptile, or something else? 

Renia Kukielka, the Warsaw ghetto uprising and more in The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion.

Four historians consider whether the experience of the pandemic has changed their views on the nature of historical crises.

When people are returned to the historical record, they regain their humanity.

How events in British India were leveraged in the debate over slavery.

A Victorian homage to a Renaissance master became one of the world’s most reproduced images. 

The spiritual power of medieval relics meant that Jerusalem, or a dragon, could be remade anywhere.