History Today

Myanmar’s colonial legacy includes racial hierarchies and authoritarian government. In the new nation state, not everyone is welcome.

Understanding the power relations that transoceanic settlements and trade opened up.

Which Pope refused Henry VIII’s annulment? When was income tax first levied in Britain?

The pioneering archaeologist and Oxbridge’s first woman professor, Dorothy Garrod was elected to the Chair of Archaeology on 6 May 1939.

The recent discovery of an Anglo-Saxon saint’s relics reminds us of the fragility of human life and the power of hope.

A lively, privileged group of young intellectuals grew ever more alarmed by the crises that struck Britain in the mid-1740s.

The Painted Hall at Greenwich: how it was commissioned, its narrative and its meaning.

Though remembered as the era of the housewife, momentous change in the status of British women began in the 1950s.

The mobilisation of economic, diplomatic and military resources.