History Today

Violence and expansion were integral to the armed bureaucracy at the heart of the East India Company.

The choice of the US dollar as the international reserve currency was controversial but practical.

The fates of powerful women in modern Uzbek politics echo the events of 1,000 years ago. 

Divisive political debate is nothing new. In the popular new alehouses of the 17th century, it could end in fisticuffs – even death.

One of the greatest and most fascinating of English monarchs was proclaimed queen on 17 November 1558.

Following the attack of 7 December 1941, many Japanese-Americans were guilty until proven innocent in the eyes of the US government.

James Christie first held his eponymous auction on December 5th, 1766.

A key stage in the Italian campaigns began on 14 January 1797.

Roy Foster introduces a new exhibition on the Irish in London in the 19th and early 20th centuries, opening at the National Portrait Gallery on March 9th 2005.

A letter from the editor on History Today's first special edition of the 1990s and its synergy with the recent fall of the Berlin Wall.