History Today

Solving the mystery of the British Prime Minister's wartime recordings.

Andrew MacLennan, longtime history editor at Longman Publishers, explains why his love for the subject is simply second nature to him.

Peter Gray and Kendrick Oliver review the debate surrounding the commemoration of historical disasters.

Australian prospectors struck gold on 12 February 1851.

Mary Ann Steggles recalls the circumstances of the many monuments to Queen Victoria that were erected in India, and traces their fate.

After a failed coup d'état against Elizabeth I, Robert Devereux was beheaded at the Tower of London on 25 February 1601

February 6th, 1651

Lynne Stembridge looks beyond the homespun image of the Shakers, to reveal the substance of the original movement and its sometimes turbulent past.

Richard Vinen shows how events of the last 10 years have forced him to rethink his own assumptions about the past.