William Strickland died on 8 December 1598. He was said to have introduced the turkey to England, but the truth followed him ...

Imperialism and India, spies and seafarers, paganism and the polis: the first 12 of 25 historians choose their favourite new ...

Between 1949 and 1966 the Communist state co-opted the medium for propaganda, and publishing of lianhuanhua boomed. New ...

There is another figure whose role in the second Viking Age was equally pivotal: Thorkell the Tall. Arguably the most ...

It was notable that when Iran decided – unusually – to flex some hard power towards Israel in April 2024, a number of key ...

The man known as Henry Pu Yi led one of the strangest lives of the 20th century. The last of the Manchu emperors, he succeeded to the throne as a boy of two in 1908. Three years later a revolution ...

If you haven’t yet read the History Today Books of the Year Part 1, you can find it here. But this year has also been a time of small miracles. We were so glad to welcome a new generation raising ...

'They were not the stuff of which bureaucrats are made' wrote one historian of the conquistadors with heroic understatement The men who were sent to America to extend the Spanish Empire were, by ...

Every September two friends and I go on pilgrimage. They are both pretty devout – one is a priest. I am indulged as a wistful agnostic. Growing enthusiasm for the Camino de Santiago over recent ...