History Today

Despite the difficulties in accessing official archival sources, the history of homophobic persecution in Russia is covered convincingly in this study.

Edward I, the king who changed the public face of monarchy.

During the 19th century, the physical effects of tuberculosis became the ideals of beauty for the fashionable woman.

The East German Uprising of 1953 was the first major revolt to take place in the Soviet Bloc.

Pocahontas and John Smith’s story of captivity, salvation and conversion became a tool to justify Britain’s conquest of the New World. 

The 18th century was a turbulent period in Javanese history, when local kingdoms, Dutch traders and a mysterious Turk became embroiled in a series of bloody conflicts.

A comprehensive study of the Alhambra cuts through centuries of myth to give us a sense of the vibrant spectacle that greeted its original residents and diplomatic visitors.

How Napoleon bestrode Europe, playing a deadly serious ‘game of thrones’.

Born into one of Britain’s great political dynasties and married into another, Mary Elizabeth Pitt was determined to embrace the responsibilities of a woman of her standing, despite the many obstacles in her way.