History Today

The photographer, designer and aesthete Cecil Beaton brought a distinctly historical awareness to the realm of fashion.

South-East Asia’s ‘Golden Triangle’ dominated the world’s opium production during the 1980s. David Hutt reveals how a young soldier from north Burma took on the United States government to become the region’s most notorious drug lord.

The ‘middle Medici’ – two popes, two dukes, two bastards and a future queen of France – are too often left out of the dynasty’s history. Catherine Fletcher addresses that gap.

Hidden beneath a hill in Cholula, Mexico lies the biggest pyramid ever built.

Archives are one thing, the public another and connecting the two is one of a historian’s hardest challenges, as Suzannah Lipscomb knows from experience.

A Victorian restaurant critic explored the cuisine of London, including its sole vegetarian restaurant.

The author was born on 28 July 1866.

The medievalist Wilhelm Levison was a living embodiment of the deep links between Britain, Germany and a wider Europe.

The mysterious death of Amye Robsart – murdered, as many of her contemporaries thought, at the instigation of her scheming husband, favourite of Queen Elizabeth I – provides one of the strangest unsolved problems in Elizabethan history.