History Today

Richard Cavendish explores a quantity of bygones in the museum of social history.

The Eternal City was captured after a year-long siege on December 17th, 546.

David Price on the links between the can-can of the 1890s and 1990s lap dancing.

Richard Cavendish remembers the life of Alfred Nobel, who died on December 10th, 1896.

Tony Corfield offers a provocative new interpretation of the events that brought Churchill to power in the spring of 1940.

Joachim Radkau reviews the power revolutions of steam, electricity and oil - harbingers of dramatic change in technology and social expectations.

Michael Bonavia on the long-delayed link between Britain and the Continent.

Speed and utopias – Vladimir Pankov on the brilliant novelties and blind alleys of the Futurists

Igor Slepnev on the fin de siecle project that yoked together the Russias of Europe and Asia.