History Today

The concerns of daily life prompted early modern people to seek reassurance in fate, stars, and astrologers.

Rebecca’s radical rural protests consumed South Wales in the 19th century. Who – or what – was she?

In The Tree Hunters: How the Cult of the Arboretum Transformed Our Landscape, Thomas Pakenham reveals the discoveries of Britain’s buccaneering botanists.

Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus by John Haywood and Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travels by Sara Caputo search beyond the swell.

Modernity is a ubiquitous phenomenon which defines the age in which we are living, heralding progress and enlightenment – does it even exist?

‘Who is the most underrated person in history? Olaudah Equiano. His resilience in the face of adversity was phenomenal.’

Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War by Perry Anderson relitigates the causes of the conflict through some of their key proponents. 

Prague, under the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, became the centre of the Renaissance world, where cultures mixed and learning flourished.

For much of the 20th century, young working-class women in England found out about procreation the ‘hard way’ or the ‘dirty way’.

The issue of assisted dying was first put before Parliament in 1936. Many of the same questions remain, but the arguments have changed.