History Today

The ‘discovery’ of America, capitalism, the Reformation and the Sunni-Shia divide all owe something to Selim the Grim.

The publishers of Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness were prosecuted for obscenity on 9 November 1928.

Stripping Edward the Confessor of his independence.

A search for the first doctor.

Man and woman become one in a visionary and resonant myth. 

Rhodesia’s ill-fated independence, 55 years on. 

Olympe de Gouges was executed for sedition on the order of the Revolutionary Tribunal on 3 November 1793.

A fresh account of Ernest Bevin, who operated at the summit of British public life for almost three decades.

Erasing women writers in the name of uplifting them.