History Today

June Purvis looks back at thirty years of women’s history in Britain.

Andrew Syk investigates whether one British army division truly comprised ‘lions led by donkeys’, or whether its officers learned the lessons of their early mistakes.

When Teddy Roosevelt was re-elected, on November 8th, 1904, his words to his wife Edith were: 'My dear, I am no longer a political accident'.

Andrew Lambert explains why Nelson’s life and death should never be forgotten.

Was Margaret Thatcher’s government close to defeat during the dark days of the miners’ strike of 1984-85?

The fatalist view of the Light Brigade’s charge towards the Russian guns at Balaclava is being challenged. They had their reasons why.

Philip Carter celebrates the lives reclaimed by the newly-published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Mark Goldie traces the ways in which people across the political spectrum have used and abused the ideas of the philosopher who died 300 years ago this month.

Daniel Snowman profiles the historian of War, Finance, Empire and ‘Virtual’ History.

Alastair Bonnett discusses Eastern ideas of the West, and argues they form part of a non-Western debate on modernity and society.