History Today

Both history and historical fiction depend on a combination of imagination and rigorous research. The difference is found in the balance of these ingredients. 

It is not just the Christian musical tradition that has struggled to differentiate between the sacred and the profane. 

The UDBA is probably the least known major espionage agency of the Cold War. It remains influential, despite the break-up of the country it was formed to defend. 

From Elizabethan laws to modern food campaigns: the long history of Britain's patriotic consumers.

A small island in the North Sea became the site of explosive Anglo-German encounters.

A chart drawn on seal skin challenges our ideas of what constitutes a map.

Dig deeper into Canada’s history and one encounters a more challenging past than its modern image suggests.

While Montaigne: A Life by Philippe Desan review Montaigne might include debatable interpretations of his Essays, it is an essential study of the writer's life.

A compelling narrative on the machinations of a Borgia pope and his offspring, with the added spice of Machiavelli’s cool observations.

As Holocaust survivors die, new approaches are required to tell their history, as shown in this unsentimental, emphatic account of the inhabitants of a Berlin street.