History Today

Death, fealty, homage and power in 1199.

In the stomach, the mind, or the brain – migraine’s causes and remedies have been debated for 2,000 years.

A squalid incident in Tipperary set the tone for a bitter conflict.

No one understood the literary dimension of conflict better than Michael Howard.

The multifarious motives of Europe’s Ottoman scholars.

Successful leaders or rapacious, racist, corrupt adventurers? A history of the East India Company.

A selection of our favourite articles from the past year.

The global struggle to resist the banalities of mass tourism.

Britain’s National Parks are a forgotten legacy of postwar reconstruction.

When we ask historians which genre of history they like least, the most common answer is ‘economic’. Is the field unjustly maligned?