History Today

The question of reconstruction was a thorny issue in postwar Germany, where celebrations of the ‘glorious’ past took on a different hue. 

‘Looking at my native country from outside opened completely new ways of thinking.’

Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait by Mohamad Jebara is a balanced rendering of the Prophet Muhammad’s life.

Divining disaster at Aberfan and beyond, in subjects from nocebos to lost cosmonauts.

Swear words are a constant, but their ability to cause offence is in flux. In the 1600s, today's obscenities were mundane.

The mother goddess brings death and destruction – to those who deserve it. 

From alliances, to open warfare; from tense meetings on bridges, to collective mourning at family funerals: French and English royalty were united by marriage and divided by war.

Following the death by burning of Czech Wycliffite Jan Hus in 1415, Jan Zelivsk preached in Prague New Town on 30 July 1419.

Brazil’s cars have run on ‘green fuel’ for a century, but this has not come without costs.