History Today

Talk of a Balkan federation became a hot topic at the end of the Ottoman Empire, eventually dying a death at the dawn of the Cold War. Was Europe’s ‘Little Orient’ destined to fall apart?  

The Archpriest Avvakum Petrov was burned in Pustozersk on 14 April 1682.

Is knowledge a useful remedy for ignorance?

Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost. Preservation only began when film came to be seen as art.

The death of Joseph Stalin’s son Yakov Dzhugashvili in a German concentration camp 80 years ago was kept a secret for decades.

Hawai‘i’s Mauna Kea is among the best places in the world to study the universe, but the construction of a new super telescope is about more than astronomy.

A valedictory column provides a chance to reflect on a decade grappling with what history is and how it should be written.

Remembered as Adam’s first wife, a child-killing demon and a feminist hero, who was Lilith?

Soaring and swooping through a history of Catholicism, from 1789 to the present day.