Birth of ‘Typhoid Mary’
The infamous Mary Mallon was born on 23 September 1869.
History Today
This Is Not a Love Story
The correspondence between Mary Hamilton and the future George IV is often seen as evidence of a harmless crush in the Georgian court. It was nothing of the sort.
A History of China’s Claim to Taiwan
Mao Zedong once said that Taiwan should be independent, but the Chinese Communist Party has since changed its mind on the ‘renegade province’. How Chinese is Taiwan?
How Poland Found Itself in the Mountains
In the decades before the First World War, Polish mountaineering became a form of nationalism for a lowland people.
Galvani Discovers ‘Animal Electricity’
Luigi Galvani discovered that the spinal cords of a frog carried an electric charge on 20 September 1786.
On the Spot: Barry Cunliffe
‘From an early age I couldn’t conceive of life without being an archaeologist.’
Armenia’s Warrior Queen
Why are medieval women largely absent from current discussions of Armenia’s past?
More than a Memory
Oradour-sur-Glane is now known as a memorial to a brutal massacre, but the lives of its inhabitants have been neglected.
By the Grace of God and No One Else
The myths and realities of Oliver Cromwell’s formative years.
One Giant Leap for Tortoise-Kind
The first of Earth’s creatures to hurtle into the Moon’s orbit were slow and sedentary residents of the Great Steppe.