History Today

The story of the transportation of three obelisks to London, Paris and New York captures the 19th-century mania for all things Egyptian.

The great and not-so-great desert explorers of the 18th and 19th centuries are evocatively profiled.

How did an evocatively named Flanders village become shorthand for a whole series of battles around the Belgian city of Ypres?

Accounts of the life of Germanicus are complex, fascinating and open to interpretation.

Laws against religious offence in India have altered the writing and understanding of the nation’s past.

‘Little Miss Sure Shot’, Annie Oakley, was born 13 August 1860.

Backpackers, travelling through Europe, forged a new wave of international collaboration.

The Conservatives are enduring a crisis of identity and purpose. Not for the first time, the work of the great 18th-century philosopher, Edmund Burke, is seen as offering a path to the party’s reinvention. 

Faced with an extortionate rise in the price of kosher meat, Jewish women in New York’s Lower East Side employed protest tactics borrowed from the radical political movements that prospered in their neighbourhood. 

What did the indigenous people of the Americas think of Christopher Columbus?