History Today

Work was once deemed suitable for women only until they married. And it was not just men who thought that should be the case.

Camillo Agrippa, author of Trattato di scientia d’arme, died on 1 January 1600.

As we take stock of the past year, the most famous event in English history reminds us of our inability to foresee the future.

The fact that lobsters ‘walked’ on their claws puzzled even Aristotle. He had to employ all his deductive genius to explain why. 

Hunting in the archives for the ‘real’ Robin Hood.

I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 by Che Guevara collects the deft epistolary prose of the self-styled prophet.

The aim of Charles I’s foreign policy was to restore his nephew’s lands in the Rhineland. France, he thought, was the key to success. 

Britain has been a high inequality, high poverty nation for most of the last 200 years. 

Exploring the important, but elusive, diplomatic role played by people of African descent in early modern Europe.

‘No genre reveals as much about the human condition as military history.’