On 25 December 336 Rome’s believers celebrated Christmas Day – the earliest recorded use of that date as it spread across ...

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954) is a profoundly – even unsettlingly – historical novel. Granted, it doesn’t look ...

But it wasn’t an engraving. It was a sheet of finely woven silk – a thousand threads to the inch – so subtle and detailed ...

It may not have been the first, argues John Hardiman in The French Revolution: A Political History, but it was the first of ...

The English saint Oswald of Northumbria proved incredibly popular in the medieval German-speaking world. How did he get there ...

The Raj’s control of India’s princely states was never absolute, as the British-appointed tutor to the last maharajah of ...

From royal waltzes to arms contracts, Britain’s relationship with Tito’s Yugoslavia was a blend of spectacle and strategy, ...

History Today was launched, but in what ways? I can’t remember when I first read History Today: probably not in 1951, when I was seven, but soon afterwards my parents bought me a subscription, since ...

When the aurora borealis appeared in the skies of 18th-century Europe, Enlightenment scientists first turned to history to understand it.

Since 1708 there has been vicious competition over the Spanish treasure galleon San José, its cargo, and, now, its sunken remains.

The Raj’s control of India’s princely states was never absolute, as the British-appointed tutor to the last maharajah of Travancore discovered. The English saint Oswald of Northumbria proved ...

The rules for young officers at West Point Military Academy in New York were strict. Alcohol possession could lead to expulsion and even smoking tobacco could affect one’s chances of graduating. Of ...