The Nuclear Taboo
The need to preserve alliances was a compelling reason not to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
History Today
December Quiz
Who was the ‘Father of History’? Do you know which was the first city to be bombed from the air?
Beyond Profit
The Dutch role in the slave trade cannot be dismissed as a matter of numbers.
Travels Through Time: Bloodshed and Confusion in India
How did the East India Company become ‘an empire within an empire’?
Stauffenberg: Portrait of a Plotter
The views and actions of the man who tried to kill Hitler.
Gossiping with the Dead
At what point does memoir become biography and biography become history?
Securing Antarctica by Treaty
The Antarctic Treaty on the governance of the ‘white continent’, signed in 1959, became a trailblazing model for the world. But the future of Antarctica remains contentious.
On the Spot: Julia Lovell
What’s the most important lesson history has taught me? To try to see things from multiple angles.
The Studious Resistance of Marc Bloch
A French medieval historian, who served his country in both world wars, helped pioneer a new approach to history in between them.
Unravelling the History of Wool
The lore and history of knitting in the British Isles.