History Today

Following the media rush to commemorate the First World War, Stephen Badsey is disappointed that television has so far failed to embrace the latest historical research on the conflict.

Bishop William Stubbs was the last of the amateur historians and arguably the discipline’s first professional.

The life and personality of Francis I.

The First World War transformed women-only Somerville College. It became a hospital for convalescing soldiers, housed poets and writers and changed forever the fortunes of female students, writes Frank Prochaska. 

The West’s confused approach to Germany after Hitler’s death damaged its relationship with the Soviet Union.

Possibly the most destructive volcanic eruption of all time occurred on 10 April 1815.

The founder of the eponymous cosmetics company died on April 1st, 1965. 

In 1915 the Women’s Congress demonstrated that cooperation endured in a political landscape ravaged by the First World War.

The increasing commercialisation of sites known for their gruesome and violent history raises troubling questions. But to ignore such events would be worse, argues Suzannah Lipscomb.