History Today
The author of Courtiers: The Secret History of Kensington Palace (Faber & Faber), and presenter of the BBC TV series, If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home discusses her work with Paul Lay. Published January 9 2012
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A pair of new books offer differing takes on the stoicism of British explorers in search of geographical extremes. Published January 4 2012
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Roger Moorhouse on a book that provides a powerful antidote to fashionable nostalgia for life in the GDR. Published January 2 2012
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Wrap your brain around questions on the first English newspaper, the last king of Burma, the real Macbeth and more. Published January 1 2012
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Enter our crossword and win an audiobook of 1215: The Year of Magna Carta. Published December 22 2011
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Italian Fascist scouts meet a member of the Hitler Youth in Padua, October 1940: a picture explained by Roger Hudson. Published December 21 2011
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David Torrance examines a pioneering article, first published in History Today in 1990, which argued that the Scottish Enlightenment was not restricted to Edinburgh but was a genuinely national phenomenon. Published December 21 2011
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What can historical fiction tell us about the past that factual history can’t? Does it distort the record and confuse the reader? What exactly is historical fiction anyway? Published December 21 2011
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Michael Bloch reviews Norman Davies' Vanished Kingdoms: an 'enjoyable and idiosyncratic historical excursion'. Published December 21 2011
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A selection of readers' correspondence with the editor, Paul Lay. Published December 21 2011
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The black activist Malcolm X was not a civil rights leader. Nor was he a victim of the mass media. He was its beneficiary, in life and death, argues Peter Ling. Published December 21 2011
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The designer of the Colt revolver, the most celebrated killing machine in the history of the Wild West, died on January 10th 1862, aged 47. Published December 20 2011
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Frederick the Great, the man who made Prussia a leading European power, was born on January 24th, 1712. Published December 20 2011
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The Maid of Orléans was born on January 6th 1412: she has been an incarnation of French national identity and pride for six centuries. Published December 20 2011
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The poets Gerard Manley Hopkins and Coventry Patmore both subscribed to a Tory world view, fiercely opposing the reforms of Prime Minister Gladstone. But their correspondence reveals two very different personalities, says Gerald Roberts. Published December 20 2011
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