History Today

Works by artists including Dalí, Duchamp and Picasso went on display at the Burlington Gallery on 11 June 1936.

A children’s opera brought a brief respite from the terrors of the Holocaust.

Literature and the visual arts have long sought to depict the nature of conflict. But what about music?

When does a boy become a man? Medieval millennials were just as hard to define as those of today.

‘The generalship at the top in the First World War was as bad as Liddell Hart said it was’.

An enthralling study of the power of aerial women and their challenge to patriarchy.

The propagation of humanity has been a bloody struggle for women.

The unusual circumstances of the founding of New Orleans in 1718 have had a lasting impact on its culture.

Man and god seek love and unity in one of the most celebrated Hindu myths.

An introduction to Sufism, the mystical-ascetical movement within Islam, whose followers have often been the target of ISIS jihadis.