History Today

How important was China’s senior diplomat to his nation’s rise to global power, or is it too early to say?

As Britain faced the prospect of food shortages in 1917, panic mounted. One solution was to redeploy policemen to plough the land.

Four historians consider what the past might tell us about everyday responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Father Secchi demonstrated his water quality disk to the pope on 20 April 1865.

Fundamental things apply in a time of crisis.

The skills of the stone mason align with language to document a 30-year love affair with stone.

The 17th and 18th century European scholars who pioneered the study of Arabic and Islam as an academic discipline. 

What did the Easter 1920 riots in Jerusalem reveal about British rule in Palestine?

Everything you thought you knew about the Aztecs is wrong.