History Today

The conspirators who planned to assassinate the Prime Minister and his Cabinet were arrested on 23 February 1820.

The slippery subject of eel reproduction evaded human understanding for millennia.

Acre was the most cosmopolitan city in the medieval world. Its inhabitants thought it too valuable to destroy. They were wrong.

Shampooing was brought to Britain by a Bengali immigrant who knew his craft – and how to sell it.

Stately homes surrounded by extravagant gardens are a staple of the English countryside, but how were they funded?

Quarantine is intended to protect, but it can also punish.

A courtier of refined sensibility and an adventurer of bold and boundless ambition.

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‘Our work on the Calais ‘Jungle’ forced me to change my mind about freedom of movement.’

A bridge between India and Persia.