History Today

For citizens of Ancient Rome, the recurrence of brutal civil war was par for the course. For writers, it was an opportunity. 

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

The legend of Ravachol, the terrorist ‘mastermind’ of the fin de siècle. 

On 14 June 1632, the Ethiopian Emperor Susenyos abdicated in favour of his son.

A Shanghai bookshop played a pivotal role in promoting Sino-Japanese friendship. 

An up-to-date history of modern Spain, from 1898 to the present.

Eminent doctors and notorious charlatans vied for sick patients to treat in the cut-throat medical marketplace of Georgian England.

James Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the throne, campaigned for the Jacobite cause with dancing and parties. 

Delusions of grandeur: a ‘psychobiography’ of Woodrow Wilson.