History Today

The devastating fire at Notre-Dame destroyed more than just bricks.

All the winners from this year's awards ceremony.

Starvation and disease killed millions in British India during the Second World War. Why?

The pursuit of astronomical study led a Victorian woman from Surrey to the Indian foothills.

Why is the West so suspicious of Russia? The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It by Mark B. Smith attempts to answer.

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.