History Today

In our Film in Context series, Greg Walker explores the wider messages of Alexander Korda’s historical classic, in terms of the opposition to Appeasement and the mood of 1933.

Isabel Hariades traces her life in history publishing back to a rich education in Edinburgh and Greece.

Gillian Mawrey looks at the Scottish prizewinners for historic garden conservation and restoration

Duncan Wilson looks at the history of the Strand site.

September 8th, 1051

President William McKinley was shot at a public reception during the Pan-American Exposition in the city of Buffalo on September 6th, 1901.

Reflections from the editors of History Today, Rodina and Damals on the meaning of 1945.

The remarkable wave of rebuilding and new building that took place across society, between 1570 and the outbreak of the Civil War.

Brian Harrison explains how a national institution is being updated.

Stuart Hood recalls his involvement with the Italian partisans in 1943-44, and is surprised by the way events in which he participated are memorialised.