History Today

Annual competition for essays on Oliver Cromwell.

Robert Poole contributes to our occasional Film in Context series, with a look at the way in which Stanley Kubrick redefined our views not only of the future, but of space itself.

Stephen D. Behrendt marks the advent of an electronic database for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Daniel Snowman meets the biographer of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, media don and constitutional expert.

Guiseppe Verdi, described by the Italian parliament as 'one of the highest expressions of the national genius' died on January 27th, 1901, aged 87.

Unearthing the Cumbrian city's Roman past.

Paul Dukes takes a fresh look at the Cold War in the light of some recurring themes of Russian and American history since the 18th century.

Started in 1947, to grow peanuts in Tanganyika as a contribution to both the African and British economies, the Groundnuts Scheme was abandoned four years later on January 9th, 1951.

The Prussian Kingdom was founded on January 18th, 1701, when the Elector Frederick III had himself crowned Frederick I at Konigsberg.

Anthony Bryer takes a Byzantine view of time and identity.