History Today

Everything you thought you knew about the Aztecs is wrong.

Ovid’s tale inspired one of the world’s greatest works of art.

What the media missed while covering the discovery of two statues in Rome.

When was the Year of the Four Popes? Who were the Sacred Band of Thebes?

How Worcestershire sauce changed the way we look at medieval manuscripts.

How Chinese porcelain became a worldwide sensation, changing tastes and the global economy.

Historians should remind themselves that quantity and quality are often very different things.

An outsider’s observations from the moments before China’s Cultural Revolution.

What will future generations judge us most harshly for? Abandoning the rule that truth matters in public life.

A chivalric form of planned battle took place on 26 March 1351.