History Today

Sarah Foster offers a fascinating account of how Irish identity, with its sectarian implications, asserted itself in the manufacture and purchase of luxury goods.

John Cabot set sail from Bristol, England, looking for a route to the west on May 20th 1497.

C. John Sommerville on networking in 17th-century coffee houses.

In the ideological battlefield of the recovery and reshaping of Europe, a plan was developed between the US and European Nations on 5 June 1947.

Penny Young investigates the Tawila tanks of Aden, in Yemen.

Casting Islam and Muslims as the enemy was crucial in the Crusades, and the context of conflict has colored Christian-Islamic relations since.

500 years after their uprising against Henry VII, Mark Stoyle discusses why the Cornish were different - and often rebellious - in Tudor and Stuart England.

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of May 15th, 1847.

Richard Cavendish describes the brief rule of Cola di Rienzi following his coup d'etat on May 20th, 1347.

Simon Thurley sniffs the air in William III's Privy Garden at Hampton Court.