History Today

Female explorers of the 19th century demolished Victorian notions of stay-at-home women. But why were they so vehemently anti-feminist? The case of Mary Wollstonecraft may hold the answer. 

Is Kazakhstan 30 or 556 years old? As the five states of Central Asia celebrate three decades of independence, they prefer the glories of the ancient past to the legacy of Soviet rule. 

A young Anglo-Saxon woman with a taste for the finer things in life is the unlikely inspiration for a new pilgrim route. 

The victory of the Greeks over Persia in 480 BC was more than just a landmark in naval warfare. It shaped the way the past is understood. 

Can we trust historical archives? State-run collections of documents are prone to abuse both by those who use them and their gatekeepers. 

The House of Lords, often in the shadow of the Commons, asserted its power during the reigns of James I and his son, Charles I. But it would be eclipsed by civil war. 

The glittering career of Hella Pick, child refugee from Hitler’s Vienna and an exile in wartime Britain.

The first of three articles that proved the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a forgery was published in The Times on 16 August 1921.

The industry of fake charters, from the tenth century, to its zenith two centuries later.