History Today

'A re-banished Jewry weeping beside the waters of Modern Babylon'. Between 1880 and 1914 the mass exodus of Jews from Russia and Poland fled hunger and persecution and came west.

Michael Biddiss on the tale of a French village massacred by the SS in June 1944.

Roy Porter explains how historians react to being misunderstood.

Colin Holmes introduces a new series on the arrival of refugees and other foreigners to the country.

Francis Robinson explores words and language plundered from the sub-continent.

In this article, Sheridan Gilley looks at the rich history surrounding Irish immigration abroad.

It used to be taken for granted that historians wrote narratives, but this is now a matter of debate.

The medieval order of Teutonic Knights held powerful sway over the historical imagination of Germany until the Second World War. Why and how did this nationalist myth flourish?

Putting women back in the record? Rewriting the past? Ghetto history? Gender analysis? Eight historians ask what is women's history?