History Today

One of England’s best-known kings died on 28 January 1547. 

Newfoundland was England’s first overseas colony, but its settlement did not follow the usual patterns: its communities were nomadic, moving around the island with the seasons.

Winning the vote meant millions of women needed a party to represent them in Parliament. Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst founded one, with limited success.

In the POW camps of the Second World War, soldiers found release – from the conditions and from the all-male company – in female impersonation.

Fiercely independent, highly skilled sailors, the Kroomen of Sierra Leone forged an alliance with the Royal Navy to rid the African coasts of slavers.

As the world’s refugee crisis is once again bringing the challenges of mass encampment to Europe, the camps of Britain’s recent past could serve as a warning to today’s politicians.

An embattled emperor offered guidance to his successors in the shape of a ‘mirror for princes’.

Hospital or home birth has rarely been a simple choice.

The inventor of the saxotromba, saxhorn, saxtuba and saxophone was born on 6 November 1814.

History suggests that closer collaboration and rradical new thinking between the central state and Cooperativisim could yet yield positive results.