History Today

‘We can’t see our own blindspots, so, as we anatomise those of our predecessors, we perpetuate our own.’

An account of how belief became opinion.

Found guilty of fraud, the French chemist was executed on 8 May 1794.

The work of the historian Norman Cohn has taken on a new resonance. We should heed his warnings.

Lal Ded was a pioneer of Kashmiri poetry, who raised the consciousness of the common people and challenged ideas of caste, religion and gender.

The real lives of five women who found fame only in the manner of their deaths: murdered by the man we have come to know as ‘Jack the Ripper’.

Who cares whether China stops buying soy from the United States? History suggests we all should.

Travelling the world with the diaspora, jerk is an artefact of Jamaica’s troubled colonial history and a powerful testament to the island’s centuries-long quest for freedom.

From neo-Nazis to unpopular politicians, since the Second World War many people have been accused of trying to establish a Fourth Reich, but what was it?

The life of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus.