History Today

De Gaulle’s secret was an ability to project a sense of French gloire, even when it didn’t really exist.

‘What’s the most important lesson history has taught me? That the same arguments come around again and again.’

India’s First World War experience as seen through personal archives.

Restoring women to history presents challenges – and some opposition.

Every generation has its own Robin, adapted to fit the needs of the time.

A case for the study of Islam’s ‘other’ history.

The Iraq War has damned the former British Prime Minister in the eyes of many. But his support for regime change was widely shared at the time.

Social media recreates the anxieties associated with early modern puritanism.

The father of modern optics could not have succeeded had he not feigned madness.

A look at the Vietnam War from two contrasting perspectives.