History Today

At first glance, the newspapers’ sensational coverage has changed little since Jack the Ripper struck. However, the tone of the Victorian press was as varied as its readers.

From the practical idealism of early municipal reformers to the tragedy of Grenfell Tower. 

The British public are obsessed with the First World War, but know little about how it was brought to an end.

Sweets made of ice or snow have been with us for millennia, evolving slowly into the modern ice cream.

The shortest war in history began (and ended) on 27 August 1896.

Four new studies challenge familiar tropes to consider some important but lesser-known areas of the women’s suffrage movement. 

The wait for the outcome of Chamberlain’s mission to Munich and the looming spectre of another world war hung over Britain in 1938. Its impact was deeply felt.

A contemporary of Hitler, Franco and Mussolini, Salazar is remembered by some of his compatriots as the greatest figure in the nation’s history. Why?

The arrival of Napoleon’s troops in Venice in 1797 instigated one of the biggest plunders in the history of art. 

Can the study of the past really help us to understand the present?