History Today

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

The key to Germany’s imperial ambition, the North Sea island of Heligoland was transformed into a fortress. By the end of the Second World War, the dream lay in ruins.

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.

The lives of six Victorian radicals shed light on the struggle to establish feminism, social reform and the Labour movement.

From a priory hospital in the fields, to the Huguenots, Jack the Ripper and the Kray twins, Spitalfields has always been considered a place apart

Britain’s entry into the Second World War ushered in a wave of anti-German sentiment, creating strange bedfellows across the political spectrum.