History Today

A Bodhisattva is a compassionate Buddhist deity who walks among us.

‘People don't learn from others’ mistakes. We have a need to make our own.’

The concerns of a Sardinian abbess, as seen through the letters of Gregory the Great.

From de Gaulle’s call to arms against Vichy France to Liberation four years later, we review The French Resistance by Olivier Wieviorka.

A staple of Russia and the Slavic world, borscht has inspired films and novels – and has even reached outer space.

An enchanting series revealed the strangeness of the past to generations of children.  

Never fully exorcised, the memory of Italy’s fascist past is fading.

How will modern women respond to the realities of a 16th-century life?

The reasons for the brevity of the Latin presence in the 12th-century Eastern Mediterranean.

A teenager shipwrecked on a Pacific atoll helped transform relations between Japan and the United States.