History Today

The governors of the London Foundling Hospital recruited an external network of nurses to care for children. For many, the bonds established endured.

‘I’d like to go back to midnight on 1 January 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect.’

Fifty encrypted letters sent by Mary, Queen of Scots have recently been deciphered. What have we learnt?

Elizabeth Justice, writer of the first female-authored book of travel writing to be published in English, died on 15 March 1752.

Julius Caesar was killed on 15 March 44 BC. We’ve heard about the ‘Ides of March’ – but what happened next?

Why did Asia not have postwar peace?

Jean Calas was sentenced to be broken on the wheel in front of the cathedral in Toulouse, on 10 March 1762.

For Edward I, filling his army with criminals made perfect sense.

Where relations between Armenia and Turkey are concerned, the 11th century never ended.