History Today

To whom should one pledge fealty? Lord, king, brother or nation?

Viewed from Prague, the collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia was ‘joyful’. But, as some Czechs would discover, not all revolutions are equal.

But for one turning point, Ermengarde, Viscountesse of Narbonne, might be as well known as Eleanor of Aquitaine.

In the 18th century, celebrity culture helped make the British Empire seem both a part of everyday life and a place of fantasy.

Overshadowed between two dramatic missions, the success of Apollo 12 was vital to the continuing space project.

The mysterious prisoner died at the Bastille on 19 November 1703.

The year 529 had great consequences for Justinian I, the Neoplatonic school in Athens and St Benedict.

The life of one of the leading British historians of the mid-20th century.

How, in Jane Austen’s England, sons without a fortune tried to find one.

Police brutality and stop-and-search are yet another legacy of Empire.