History Today

‘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?

We ask leading historians 20 questions on why their research matters, one book everyone should read and their views on the Tudors ...

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.