History Today

The painting that inspired Shelley and Stendahl is thought to be of a young woman executed on 11 September 1599 for the murder of her father.

Society’s battle against what Richard Nixon called ‘public enemy number one’ is an ancient one. Is there any sense in fighting?

Is lightning natural or divine? Opinion split royalists and republicans. 

Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present by Johanna Drucker explores the birth of the alphabet before the Greeks.

‘It is not the rich and seemingly powerful that make history, but the majority of humans.’

Patterns in dust reveal the right verses to live by. 

Is King Lear the Shakespearean tragedy for a world of capitalism and catastrophe? 

Is there a trend of ‘reverse Darwinism’ in Russian history?

As America built a vision of its past Oliver Cromwell became both angel and demon.

The means, tactics and strategies employed by Vietnamese communist authorities against the occupying French.