History Today

In an age of political and religious division that ended in Civil War, Lucius Cary and his circle at Great Tew offered a space for debate and compromise.

The role of women in the Ku Klux Klan is often neglected, but they were key players at all levels.

Assessing Margaret Thatcher’s premiership: a radical decade and a divisive legacy. 

Despite the religious rupture caused by the Reformation, fear of the Apocalypse remained common to both sides of western Christendom. But older, classical ideas of an eternal return were at work, too.

This episode takes us back to 1853 and the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry’s fleet of ships into Edo Bay.

The wife of the Mughal Emperor died on 17 June, 1631.

Events in the Baltic States at the end of the First World War had serious long-term consequences.

If tensions between the US and Iran in the Persian Gulf lead to war, it will not be the first time. In 1987 and 1988, the US intervened to protect shipping from Iranian attacks.

Continental Australia has a surprising history of South Asian immigration.