History Today

The War in Words

What did British officers think of the American Civil War as it was happening?

Sea Change

Demolishing the myths surrounding Mary Seacole.

All That Is Not Good

Writing in troubled times, Julian of Norwich realised that consolation only has meaning if it takes pain seriously.

No Dinner Party

Bringing together revolution’s most ardent theorists and its fiercest critics.

Scotland Too

Scotland’s profiteering and complicity within the British Empire’s transatlantic slave trade.

When Did the Medieval Period End?

As conventional wisdom has it, Europe began to see the light at the end of a dark age sometime around 1500. Four experts try to date the birth of modernity.