History Today

Richard Pflederer evaluates a vital tool of the age of discovery.

Leslie Marchant sees the Opium Wars as a philosophical clash between two cultures and two notions of government and society.

Thomas Doherty examines a series of conflicts between left-wing artists and movie moguls at the time of Sergei Eisenstein's brief sojourn in Tinseltown in the 1930s.

June Purvis explores the career of Emmeline Pankhurst.

On May 31st, 1902, the Peace of Vereeniging was signed, ending the Second Boer War between Britain and the two Afrikaner republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State.

Neil Bell rounds up the latest from the world of re-enactment and living history.

The son and heir of Henry VII died on 2 April 1502.

Richard Cavendish charts the founding of Cape Town, on April 7th, 1652.

Richard Cavendish describes the coronation of Queen Anne on April 23rd, 1702.

John Horne looks at what lay behind allegations of brutality on both sides in the opening months of the Great War.