History Today

A spectre which haunts many historians, whether of art or of science, is the forgery.

Douglas Johnson recounts the life of the infamous French army captain.

'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.

It was not only the Jews who fled from Tsarist persecution in the late 19th century. Immigrants from Lithuania came to Scotland en route for the United States and many stayed.

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.