History Today

The finished Menin Gate memorial, unveiled on 24 July 1927, recorded 54,896 British and imperial soldiers who died at Ypres between 1914 and 1918, and whose bodies were lost. 

The latest in Rob Murray's series of Alternative History cartoons.

As senility came to be recognised as a distinct diagnosis, methods of protecting patients – from themselves and from others – had to change. 

For the German military command, the citizens of East Prussia were not a concern; they were a weapon. 

Having prospered for more than 400 years, a medieval colony on Greenland vanished without a trace, but its memory lived on.

As promoters, propagandists, patrons and warriors, women were everywhere during the Crusades. 

An account of the sex lives of European intellectuals is full of gossip – and as shallow as the society pages.

Recent royal crises reveal echoes of discontent in 1870s Britain, when disquiet with monarchy manifested in calls for its abolition. 

Art reveals the past – if you know how to look.

The anti-Russian poetry of Frances Browne, the ‘Blind Poetess of Ulster’.