History Today

Managing political enemies through forced exile and penal colonisation.

Hong Kong’s ‘one country, two systems’ policy was boldly pragmatic, but it was not the first time such an idea had been tried – nor the first time that it failed.

What are the origins of Hungary’s obsession with Turanism?

Over 60 years after escaping French rule, Algerian memory of the War of Independence remains a thorny issue. 

The Water-Babies was a fairytale that straddled religion and science, railing against logical rationality in the face of nature’s mysteries. 

The advent of telecommunications gave rise to a new literary genre through which female telegraphers and writers found social freedoms.

Historians often take creative liberties when setting the scene, but at what point does it become misleading?

Anatomical pop-up books, introduced in the 16th century, took anatomy out of the lecture hall and into the home. 

Spreading east in the 11th century, the Normans soon became a feared part of the Byzantine army, but a mercenary’s loyalty is always to his paymaster, as the empire would soon discover.