History Today

Japan’s vast Asian empire became home to more than a million female settlers, who told their stories in an effort to keep in contact. 

Cuneiform tablets preserved in the fire that devastated the Mesopotamian city of Ebla offer an extraordinary insight into life 4,000 years ago. 

A new old take on the Danish succession, complete with tales of derring do.

The patron saint of children and barrel-makers died on 6 December 343. 

A legislative highlight of the great reforming post-war Labour Government took effect on 1 January 1947.

Henri of Navarre is one of the most complex and fascinating personalities among the ruler of France.

The Parisian pornographer who modernised literature. 

A former editor of History Today looks back on a life mixing the personal and the political.

The Indonesian genocide of 1965 has been smothered in silence for half a century.