History Today

The Norse god who found a new immortality in the stage works of Richard Wagner.

How long was the presidency of William Henry Harrison? Which country lasted only one day?

Once the slave-trading capital of Britain, the memory of Britain’s empire of enslavement remains visible in Liverpool’s public buildings and streets.

Recent government proposals are merely the latest in a long history of hostility.

The religious politics that reshaped 17th-century England and Scotland and propelled many towards transatlantic migration.

There is nothing new about political divisions, nor attempts to heal them.

Were humanist free-thinkers the engineers of magic’s decline?

In 1726, Mary Toft claimed she had given birth to rabbits. The case became a test of the doctors’ scientific principles.

The history of the Third Reich remains as popular as ever. Why?

Recent political crises have shown the importance – and neglect – of constitutional history.